Two Spanish climbers died yesterday on the Gervasutti Couloir of 4,248m Mont Blanc du Tacul, when their rope came loose as they were rappeling. The accident occurred after a section of the East ...

Ussha, Pyramide du Tacul, Mont Blanc, Western Alps, Brilliant addition to the SE Face of Pyramide du Tacul. Ussha climbs to the left of the classic Via Ottoz and to the right of the route put up by ...

Interview with Renzino Cosson, mountaineer, mountain guide and Mont Blanc expert after the accident on Mont Blanc du Tacul which cost the lives of 8 mountaineers on Sunday 24 August. An occasion and ...

In an ironic way, Mont Blanc du Tacul is "just another first" for Giraud, but it is anything but "just another" line. This journey was done to honor Giraud's late friend and freeskiing legend Tof ...

The Mont Blanc Massif includes several other prominent peaks, including Mont Maudit, Mont Blanc du Tacul, and Aiguille du Midi. Mont Blanc is known as the birthplace of modern alpine mountaineering.

IT’S JUST AFTER midnight but the snow is glistening in the light of a harvest moon—and our headlamps. I look up, enchanted, at the silhouettes of jagged Alpine peaks and processions of fellow ...

PARIS – French rescuers say two German brothers died of apparent hypothermia when they were caught in a storm while climbing a glacier on Mont Blanc. The mountain guide service of Chamonix said ...

An avalanche swept down a major summit in the Mont Blanc range before dawn Sunday, leaving eight climbers missing and presumed dead, and seven injured, along a trail often used to reach western ...

One of the country's top mountain guides has been killed after he was swept away by an avalanche in the French Alps. Russell Braddock, 60, died while climbing Mont Blanc du Tacul on Monday.

PARIS – An avalanche in the French Alps killed two Italian mountain climbers and injured another on Tuesday, rescue officials said. The accident occurred at 4 a.m. on Mont Blanc du Tacul, a ...

1. Mont Blanc, Italy/France. In August 2008, fifteen climbers were caught in a 200-metre-wide avalanche as they ascended the northwest face of Mont Blanc du Tacul.

Matthais Giraud is known for his list of firsts: Shooting GoPro's first viral video. Completing the first ski BASE jump off the Alps Trilogy, Mt. Hood, Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn, Aiguille Blanche ...