8 climbers feared dead after Mont Blanc avalanche

AP Worldstream | August 24, 2008| | Copyright

An avalanche swept down a major summit in the Mont Blanc range before dawn Sunday, leaving eight climbers missing and presumed dead, and seven injured, along a trail often used to reach western Europe's highest peak.

"There's no chance of finding anyone alive," French Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said while visiting the area.

The avalanche was set off at around 3 a.m. by the fall of a massive block of ice on the Mont Blanc du Tacul, one of the peaks in the Mont Blanc range, at an altitude of some 3,600 meters (11,800 feet), the Haute-Savoie regional ...

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