US EditionMountaineering: two Spaniards fall to their death in the Mont-Blanc massif
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A new tragedy has come to grieve the slopes of the highest peak in Europe, two weeks after the last fatal accident
The two brothers, aged 33 and 37, were roped up at an altitude of more than 2,000 meters near the summit of Tournette, in Haute-Savoie.
Two Basque mountaineers born in Guipuzcoa died early this Wednesday afternoon when they fell from the top of Montblanc du Tacul (4,248 meters). As reported by the radio station France Bleu, the deceased, aged 26 and 27 respectively, were descending along the usual route of the Gervasutti corridor.Continue reading...
The events took place at the summit of Mont Blanc du Tacul. The two victims, aged 26 and 27, “wanted to test a block of stone with their ropes for an abseiling”, but the latter gave way.
Two Spanish mountaineers, aged 26 and 27, were killed on Wednesday after testing a rock block that gave way, sending them into a fall of several hundred meters.
Two Spanish mountaineers, aged 26 and 27, die this Wednesday on one of the peaks of the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps, as reported by the French authorities. The accident occurred early in the afternoon, when the group of which the mountaineers were part fell for unknown reasons from a height of about 100 meters during a rappelling in the Gervasutti corridor, according to a spokesman for the Chamonix High Mountain Gendarmerie Platoon (PGH…
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