Mont Blanc

Mont Blanc

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Interesting info

Every year people ask about Mont Blanc:
Hereunder an article posted on the newspaper "La Vallèe" (Val d'Aosta) talking about deaths in Mont Blanc Group
The article is in Italian, we'll try to have the time to translate it all in English.
here the most important contents:
the title says:
In Mont Blanc Group a grave of ice for 160 bodies
... excluding the over 100 passengers of the Indian plane fallen just above the summit of Mont Blanc in 1966, the worst year was 1993 with 8 missing ... from 1986 to 2006 more than 160 climbers are still missing ... 22 Italians, 8 Germans, 8 Frenches, 4 Spanish, then English, Polish, Japaneses, South Coreans, Slovenian, Swiss, North Africans. Indians ...
the first cause od death is the falling of rocks, stones and ice (34 cases) ...

The article, of course, is speaking only about the deads whose bodies are still buried and never been found



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Bor

Bor - Aug 27, 2007 6:21 am - Voted 10/10

I hope..

..it will be soon translated. :)

Gabriele Roth

Gabriele Roth - Aug 27, 2007 7:28 am - Hasn't voted

Re: I hope..

done the translation of the most important sections

Bor

Bor - Aug 27, 2007 11:51 am - Voted 10/10

Re: I hope..

Thanks!

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