This sad news is already some days old: two mountaineers of Ravensburg / Gemrany are missed on Jubiläumsgrat between Zugspitze and Alpspitze.

They started december, 27th for the first part of the arete and passed the night in the little hut on Höllentalspitze where they signed the register and had a telephone call with relatives.
Next day they got lost in bad weather probably near Vollkarspitze and up to today they were not found despite of intense search of several rescue teams.

article 1 in German

article 2 in German

The death toll in the Alps seams to be very high in the beginning of this winter.

Yayks, we thought about going there, but decided against it as the weather was too bad. We left Zermatt and the alps on the 25th as weather wasn't improving and we decided not to take the risk. I'm curious as to what has happened. There's very little possibilities to evacuate of that route, but if they'd been in the shelter, they should've been able to go back unless they fell down somewhere.

Having been on this ridge in bad weather in the summer, I know that I really wouldn't want to do the same in winter... An absence that long sadly doesn't leave much hope.

Both climbers were found after 9 months on a snowfield south of the Vollkarspitze:

Süddeutsche Zeitung (german)

My sympathies.

Been there myself in very bad weather, it's nasty!