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# the alps

Last year
2022
Italy glacier collapse 'linked to' climate change, says Draghi
At least six people died in an avalanche triggered by the glacier collapsing.
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Jul 4th 2022, 3:13 PM
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Tour de France stage dramatically abandoned due to sudden hailstorm
Organisers were forced to neutralise stage 19 on Friday afternoon.
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Jul 26th 2019, 8:04 PM
13,000 tourists trapped in Swiss ski resort after heavy snowfall
The avalanche risk in Zermatt is at its highest level.
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Jan 9th 2018, 6:00 PM
Two men die in base jumping accidents in Switzerland
An Italian man and a British man plunged to their deaths in the Alps.
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Aug 18th 2016, 4:26 PM
Five people died in a deadly weekend for extreme sports in the Alps
Four separate accidents caused the five deaths.
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Aug 15th 2016, 1:24 PM
French police arrest man for stabbing woman and three daughters
Local officials have said there is nothing to substantiate reports that the man had been offended by what the woman and girls had been wearing.
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Jul 19th 2016, 7:20 PM
Man killed and another injured as avalanche sweeps away six
The incident happened in the Swiss Alps earlier today.
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Feb 21st 2016, 5:13 PM
No obvious reasons why plane crashed into the Alps
French air traffic controllers, not the two pilots, issued a ‘mayday’ signal after the plane disappeared from their radar.
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Mar 25th 2015, 6:00 AM