August 16th 2008:Briton Reg Clarke (70) and Dutchman Johannes Ruiter (47) found frozen to death minutes from their refuge after being caught in a storm near Naso del Lyskamm peak in the Italian Alps.
August 14th:Six people die in four separate accidents. Two Frenchmen fell to their deaths from the Bosses ridge and later two mountaineers, aged 21 and 22, died while descending the Col des Courtes. A 54-year-old hiker fell coming down the Dent d'Oche and a 65-year-old local trekker was killed after falling on rocks.
August 8th:Ian Jackson (18) from Middlesbrough, fell 50m (164ft) to his death while abseiling after a climb in Chamonix.
July 25th:Jane Jerram, from New Zealand, her British boyfriend and two women from France and Chile froze to death after being caught by a storm on the Bionnassay crest, on the French side of Mont Blanc. They were said not to have had adequate clothing or equipment.
July 24thA Dutch father (56) and his children, aged 17, 20 and 23, fell 500m down a slope in Mont Dolent, part of Mont Blanc. They had been roped together.
April 30th: Five French ski-mountaineers swept away by an avalanche in Gran Paradiso national park in Italy's Alps. - (Guardian service)