A British woman is among three mountaineers who have been killed when an avalanche swept into them in the Mont-Blanc range of the French Alps, reports The Telegraph.
BFM television news channel said the woman, understood to be Anglo-Polish, died along with a Slovak woman and their German guide while on the Mont Maudit, which translates as Cursed Mountain.
Rescue services launched a search for the climbers after they were reported missing on Wednesday, a day after they had set out on their climb on the mountain whose peak is at 14,649 feet, the television channel said.
The bodies of the two women were found in a narrow gully on Wednesday evening, while the body of the German guide was found on Thursday morning around dawn, reports said.
“The group was carried away by an avalanche of seracs, or large blocks of ice,” a rescue official told FranceTVinfo news website.