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2 climbers killed

Two German mountaineers have fallen to their deaths while climbing one of the highest peaks in the Swiss Alps, the Dent Blanche, police said yesterday. A rescue helicopter was sent after police were alerted by other climbers but officers could 鈥渙nly note the death of the two men,鈥 police from the south-west canton of Valais said in a statement. 鈥淔or now, the circumstances of the accident are still undetermined. An investigation is underway. The two climbers fell between a rocky point called 鈥渢he grande gendarme鈥 and the summit, which rises to 4,357 meters.


 

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