8 Climbers Die in Swiss, French Alps

Seven people were killed in rock and ice slides in the Swiss Alps, and a German climber was found dead on France’s Mt. Blanc. A four-person mountain climbing party perished in an ice avalanche as its members climbed the northwest wall of the Taeschhorn at almost 14,000 feet above sea level, police said. And in another accident near the town of Zermatt, also in the southern Swiss canton of Valais, three workers were killed by a rockslide at 9,200 feet as they cleared a footpath, police said. French police had not identified the dead German man found on Mt. Blanc.