Yesterday, we reported on Benjamin Vedrines' record-breaking ascent of Mont Blanc -- less than five hours from Chamonix to the summit and back again. A week earlier, on May 16, France's Elise Poncet ...
Near the top of the almost 16,000 foot tall Mont Blanc, the winds hit, howling around 40 miles per hour. But French mountain athlete Élise Poncet didn’t want to turn back and be forced to face Mont ...
Main image: This woman with altitude enjoys the views towards the Matterhorn from the Glacier du Tour | Credit: Grace Taylorson Smith Pritchard For the modern-day mountaineer wishing to summit Mont ...
GRENOBLE, France — A British woman has died after getting caught in an avalanche as she was hiking with two other people on the Mont Blanc, rescue services said on Sunday. The accident happened on ...
Four climbers from Italy and South Korea were found dead on the Alps' highest peak of Mont Blanc on Tuesday after they had been missing for three days in bad weather, the local French prefecture said.