French Alps

Ex-RAF pilot recounts moment he discovered Alps massacre

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Ex-RAF pilot who found British family murdered in the French Alps tells BBC he feared a "nutter" with a gun was lurking nearby to shoot him next.

Doubts cast on Alps murders media claims

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Media reports on the shooting of four people in the French Alps have been questioned by owners of the campsite where the al-Hilli family stayed.

New evidence emerges in French Alps murders case

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New eye-witness evidence emerges of family massacre that left four dead, including initial crime scene and strange behaviour of victim days earlier.

One gun only used in French Alps massacre

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A single weapon was used in the gunning down of four people, including a British family, in woodland near Lake Annecy in the French Alps.

Mystery continues to surround UK family murders in French Alps

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French investigators still searching a motive for shooting of a British family in the French Alps that left four dead and a child seriously wounded.

French Alps shooting: live update of investigation

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Embarassed officials explain why four year-old girl was left hiding under her dead mother eight hours after police found murder victims' car. 

Four dead in French Alps mystery shooting massacre of family from Surrey

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Two young girls are the only survivors of a shooting attack on a holidaying family from Britain that left four dead in woodland in the French Alps.

Mont Blanc summer avalanche in France leaves 9 climbers dead

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Three Britons, three Germans, two Spaniards and one Swiss climber died in the tragedy on the slopes of Mont Maudit.

French Alpine glaciers shrinking

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Glaciers in the French Alps have lost a quarter of their area in the past 40 years and the rate of retreat is accelerating, according to new research.

Six climbers found dead in French Alps

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Six climbers have died in an accident in the Alps in one of the worst mountain tragedies in France in recent years.