A US climber who filmed his children, aged nine and 11, being knocked off their feet in a mini-avalanche as they tried to set a newmountaineering record on Mont Blanc has been condemned by the local mayor and climbers’ associations. Continue reading…
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Mont Blanc’s frozen body discovered 32 years after death
When Patrice Hyvert, a French trainee mountain guide, set out on a solitary climb of the Nant Blanc face he was taking advantage of a perfect mountaineering season on the Mont Blanc range.
But on that fateful day of 1 March 1982, the weather changed abruptly in the afternoon when a snowstorm descended and the 23-year-old climber never returned. Continue reading…
Anne Penketh 