Roped deadly Mont-Blanc: Sixth victim found dead in a crack

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MOUNTAIN - The accident investigation was launched Wednesday for ...

A sixth body was in the middle of the Mont-Blanc mountain climbers missing since Tuesday Afternoon in the Cleft of the Prefect of Haute-Savoie found, said on Wednesday at a press conference dedicated to the drama.

"We do not know the state, except for the fact that it is inanimate," said the first prefect Georges-François Leclerc, in a press conference prior to the confirmation of his death.

Manuals and five students, all French

On Tuesday evening, the brain six climbers, including a leader, disappeared, while from the climb to the summit of the Argentiere (3,901 m) Mont Blanc. This morning, after she warned that five bodies platoon Gendarmerie High Mountain (PGHM). The group of five students from the National Association of Centers Outdoor Sports (UCPA). All the victims were French. One of them lived in Switzerland.

According to him, Robin Agnes deputy prosecutor of the Republic of Chamonix, climbers died in a 'case of 250 m "Glacier du environments. The investigation began Wednesday to the accident. He was given a "common" section Chamonix PGHM and research. This study found that the "responsibility", he added, because at that time:. "It is too early to draw conclusions"

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