An avalanche occurred on Thursday near the ski resort of Chamonix in the French Alps, killing at least nine people and wounded eight. Four is missing.
Spain, Germany, Switzerland and United Kingdom are the countries of origin of victims of the deadly avalanche on Mount Maudit, the Mont Blanc. The climbers have reached the level of 4000 meters when they were hit.
The missing are two British and two Spanish. At the time they were hit by the avalanche, 28 people in various groups, connected by strings, says the BBC website.
"The area of the avalanche was completely probed. The search will resume Friday, depending on the weather," said Colonel Bertrand Francois, commander of the gendarmes of Upper Savoy.
The alarm was raised shortly before 5:30 am local (4:30 a.m. in mainland Portugal) by a person who was injured on the slopes of Mont Maudit. "He gave up a plate of ice 40 cm thick," advanced as the first element of explanation from Philippe Rumigny, prefect of the Haute-Savoie, at a press conference.
This mountain where the accident occurred is a popular route with tourists summer moving towards the Mont Blanc, the highest in the Alps and the highest mountain in Western Europe.
The Mont Maudit is the third highest peak of the massif that rises in the Mont Blanc, rising to over 4450 meters high.
The missing are two British and two Spanish. At the time they were hit by the avalanche, 28 people in various groups, connected by strings, says the BBC website.
"The area of the avalanche was completely probed. The search will resume Friday, depending on the weather," said Colonel Bertrand Francois, commander of the gendarmes of Upper Savoy.
The alarm was raised shortly before 5:30 am local (4:30 a.m. in mainland Portugal) by a person who was injured on the slopes of Mont Maudit. "He gave up a plate of ice 40 cm thick," advanced as the first element of explanation from Philippe Rumigny, prefect of the Haute-Savoie, at a press conference.
This mountain where the accident occurred is a popular route with tourists summer moving towards the Mont Blanc, the highest in the Alps and the highest mountain in Western Europe.
The Mont Maudit is the third highest peak of the massif that rises in the Mont Blanc, rising to over 4450 meters high.
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