Tag: climber
Accidents: First climber dies in peak Himalayan season
accidents First climber dies in peak Himalayan season View of the Himalayas from the plane. A climber died there. Photo: Sina Schuldt/dpa © dpa-infocom GmbH The mountaineer from Greece had…
Ice climber lost in avalanche
It would take a miracle for a happy outcome. An ice climber disappeared Thursday in an avalanche, followed by two others, at around 2,000 m altitude on the ice falls…
Bavaria: female climber survived a fall with a body temperature of only 30 degrees
Bavaria Mountain climber had an accident and survived a fall with a body temperature of only 30 degrees A call to her family saves the 26-year-old mountaineer from hypothermia (symbol…
20-year-old climber dies after fall in Mont-Blanc
A young climber died Sunday morning in Haute-Savoie after a fall in the Mont-Blanc massif, we learned from the High Mountain Gendarmerie Platoon (PGHM). The 20-year-old young man, of French…
Watzmann: dead climber found again – Bavaria
Another dead mountaineer has been rescued on the Watzmann in the Berchtesgaden Alps. A hiker from Munich found a lifeless body on the way to the Watzmann-Mittelspitze last week, the…
fatal fall of a climber in the Chartreuse massif
He was looking for the start of a large climbing route on the east face of the summit of Chamechaude, near Grenoble, when he fell about thirty meters. A man…
a climber dies after a night of perilous rescue on Mont-Blanc
A climber from Île-de-France died early Friday morning on the north face of Mont-Blanc, despite multiple rescue attempts by rescuers at an altitude of 4,000 meters, during the night and…
a climber has a fatal fall in the Ecrins massif
According to information from Provence, a 52-year-old mountaineer had a fatal fall of nearly 30 meters in the Ecrins massif this Sunday morning. The facts occurred while the 50-year-old rappelled…