Team Geared Up

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Two of us are just back from a European Alps climbing trip so this news hits home. Six alpine climbers have died in separate incidents yesterday when temperature on the high mountain plummeted.

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French authorities found four dead climbers on the Bionassay crest, on the French side of Mont Blanc.

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Belgian man in his 50s, died in the Italian Alps in the Trentino area.

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A person died near Monte Rosa, about 40 km (25 miles) east of Mont Blanc.

Sad Story.

(Image Credit: TGU Blogger Eoin checks the map in the Monta Rosa, by Robin).