{"id":21840,"date":"2014-08-14T00:44:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=21840"},"modified":"2025-01-14T07:46:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T12:46:59","slug":"5-climbers-dead-on-mont-blanc-peak-6th-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/14\/5-climbers-dead-on-mont-blanc-peak-6th-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"5 climbers dead on Mont Blanc peak; 6th missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14599\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14599\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Alps-Mont-Blanc-Europe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14599\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Alps-Mont-Blanc-Europe.jpg\" alt=\"Mont Blanc, the highest point of the Alps. Wikipedia photo\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Alps-Mont-Blanc-Europe.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Alps-Mont-Blanc-Europe-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mont Blanc, the highest point of the Alps. Wikipedia photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PARIS \u2014 Five French climbers died and a sixth was missing Wednesday on France&#8217;s Mont Blanc, after a night of snow and wind on Europe&#8217;s tallest mountain.<\/p>\n<p>August is the height of the climbing season on Mont Blanc, where even in the warmest months fierce storms can strike quickly.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy symbicort online <a href=\"https:\/\/healthempire.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/symbicort.html\">https:\/\/healthempire.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/symbicort.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> Several mountaineers have died already this summer \u2014 including at least one experienced guide \u2014 and local officials say they fear many people come to Mont Blanc ill-prepared for the dangers.<\/p>\n<p>The group of five climbers and a guide were reported missing overnight when they failed to return to a refuge after a planned trip to the Aiguille d&#8217;Argentiere, which tops out around 3,900 meters (12,800 feet). Mont Blanc, in addition to its primary peak, contains some 200 summits.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy topamax online <a href=\"https:\/\/healthempire.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/topamax.html\">https:\/\/healthempire.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/topamax.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The bodies of five of the climbers were located Wednesday, while a sixth has not been found, said Jean-Marc Peillex, mayor of Saint-Gervais, a town at the foot of Mont Blanc.<\/p>\n<p>Search and rescue teams headed up the slopes and a helicopter took advantage of brief windows of calm weather to fly over the area, said Christophe du Payrat, a local official.<\/p>\n<p>Mont Blanc touches France, Switzerland and Italy, and thousands try to reach its summit each year.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy keflex online <a href=\"https:\/\/healthempire.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/keflex.html\">https:\/\/healthempire.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/keflex.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS \u2014 Five French climbers died and a sixth was missing Wednesday on France&#8217;s Mont Blanc, after a night of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":14599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-w","mauthors-lori-hinnant","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284162,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21840\/revisions\/284162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}