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On Tuesday night, the remains of a 40-year-old Dutchman and a 30-year-old Frenchman were found on the rocky ridge of Chapel de la Gliero in the Chamonix valley near Mont Blanc.
The mountaineers died when they fell off a steep rocky slope on one of the popular mountaineering routes, although the cause of the accident is still unclear, authorities said.
A 71-year-old tourist was also killed Tuesday at Grang Peak in the French Alps near the Swiss border.
Rescue services said Wednesday that their helicopter saw the bodies of two Italian climbers at the foot of the Mon Modi summit. Mon Modi is one of the few peaks in the Mont Blanc chain that crosses the Italian-French border.
The disaster occurred when two experienced climbers of 66 and 67 years, coming from Genoa, descended a slope on the French side, climbing to the top on the Italian side.
“It was quite cloudy throughout the entire mountain range. They fell on the north slope for an unknown reason and fell at least 300 meters, “Lt. Col. Stephane Bozon of the Shamonti Mountain Police told AFP.
Two 48-year-old paragliders were killed Tuesday night. His paraglider crashed south of Lake Geneva.
A parachute guide and his client died when they crashed into the roof of a house and suddenly collapsed on the wings of an airplane.
Many summer climbers and tourists are drawn to these scenic mountains every summer, but authorities caution that people should not underestimate difficult routes.
Last week, the first death of the season was reported on Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in Europe, which is climbed by almost 25,000 people each year. climbers
The 65-year-old man descended from Mont Blanc when he untied his partner’s rope, believing the area was less dangerous, but slipped on a piece of snow and fell from a height of 500m, rescue services said.
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