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German climber dies near Saas Fee

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:33:12 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - A 48-year-old German climber died after falling 20 metres into a crevasse while climbing the Allelinhorn near Saas Fee. He and his guide, also German, had left the Mittelallelin lift station and skied across the Feeglatscher. At about 3,700 metres the climber lost a pole when they were on a very steep [...]

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Climber Loretan’s companion, who survived their fall, speaks up

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:07:05 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Erhard Loretan, Swiss climber of legendary stature, shocked the world with his death on his 52nd birthday in April 2011, in a fall climbing a mountain he knew well, the Gruenhorn, and that should have been relatively easy for him. He was roped to another climber, identified only as a client, a [...]

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2 more die on Swiss mountains: Val d’Herens climbers

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:55:45 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Two climbers, whose bodies have not yet been identified, died while climbing the dent d’Hérens in canton Valais Wednesday 24 August, bringing to six the number of people who have died in mountain accidents in the Swiss Alps in the past week. The pair were climbing the peak at 09:45, at 4,050 [...]

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Valais youth dies, week after fight

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:54:44 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Valais climbing death: trainee guide falls to his death SION, SWITZERLAND – A 17-year-old Valais youth died in hospital Friday 12 August, a week after being involved in an altercation with a 15-year-old in the village of Réchy. The young man was kicked in the chest and lost consciousness Saturday 1 August during a village [...]

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Dutch climber dies, another seriously injured in Valais mountain fall

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 22:20:16 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A 28-year-old Dutch woman died when she fell 200 metres and her 28-year-old climbing companion was gravely injured when he tried to save her and then also fell, late Monday 11 July, near Aletsch, in canton Valais. The two fell as they were coming down from the Dreieckhorn. They were part of [...]

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Solo climber falls to death on Nadelhorn

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:13:31 +0000

GenevaLunch.com SION, SWITZERLAND – A climber’s body was recovered by an Air Zermatt helicopter rescue team Wednesday morning 15 June from the Hohbalm glacier. Witnesses alerted authorities that the climber, whose identification is being checked by police, appeared to be descending the Nadelhorn alone qt 08:40 when he fell 200 metres to his death, onto the [...]

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British climber dies on Aiguille de Midi, 2nd youth rescued

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:01:27 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – One young man has died and a second has been rescued by an emergency team on the Aiguille de Midi in the Chamonix region of France, the Tribune de Geneve reports. The newspaper was told by Chamonix police that the two 19-year-olds were climbing the north face of the Aiguille de Midi [...]

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Hiker seeking mineral rocks in Valais falls 12 m to his death

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:28:37 +0000

GenevaLunch.com SION, SWITZERLAND – A 55-year-old man from Bern has died from a 12-metre fall into a ravine while hunting for mineral rocks in the Goms (Conche) Valley in canton Valais. The man was in an area between Muehlebach and Steinhausen. The region is noted for its mineral wealth and is a popular hiking and rock-hunting [...]

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UK man second accidental death victim in week in Geneva

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 27 May 2011 13:50:40 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A 50-year-old businessman from Staffordshire in the UK is the second person to die from non-road accidents in Geneva in the past week. Stephen Swinson flew into the city Friday 20 May to help take down a steel structure after an exhibition. He was the owner of a steel structures company. The [...]

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German climber dies in Swiss Alps (update)

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 09 May 2011 07:19:20 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva / Sion, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - A climber died Sunday while attempting the 4,274-metre Finsteraarhorn, say canton Valais police. The victim was a 39-year-old German man, who lived in Germany. He was climbing with one other person, a woman. The pair left the Finsteraarhorn hut Sunday morning to climb to the peak. They turned back [...]

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