Yes, Mont Blanc is a high-altitude mountain with risks of ice, falls, avalanches, and medical complications. But that's not why the mountain is such a killer.

Mont Blanc contains Western Europe's highest summit as well as about 200 smaller peaks and dozens die there each year. The latest deaths come less than a week after six climbers, including an ...

'Mont Blanc's height has been fluctuating since time immemorial,' the geometers say. New measurements show that France's heighest mountain is now 15,766.4 feet (4,805.59 metres) in height ...

Mountain-climbers have made a grisly discovery in the Mont Blanc range of the Alps - the body of a young climber preserved in ice for 32 years.

The summit of Mont Blanc, Europe's highest peak, has shrunk by two metres over the past 20 years. It has reached an official height of 4,807.81 metres above sea level.

On Thursday, a team of topographers who perform measurements every two years told a news conference in Chamonix, in the French Alps, the mountain was now 4,805.59 metres high — 2.22 metres lower ...

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