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Just seven days after Benjamin Védrines set a new men's ski fastest known time, William Boffelli beat him.
Just days after Élise Poncet set the women's ski FKT on Mont Blanc, Benjamin Vedrines has set a new men's ski FKT on the peak ...
Remarkably, the lighting settled directly on Mont Blanc in the background ... Check out previous Photo of the Day images, and the stories behind them. If you have an image you'd like us to ...
Rising French mountaineering star Benjamin Vedrines broke the record for the fastest ascent and descent of western Europe's ...
Sean Gallup / Getty Images In July 2020, a young female climber was trapped in a vicious rockfall in the “Corridor of Death” on Mont Blanc, Europe’s highest peak. The Estonian woman was ...
A Danish hiker fell to his death Wednesday in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps after slipping from a trail, rescue services said, just one day after four climbers were found dead on the ...
Debuted in 1924, the cigar-shaped design with three gold rings was famously “capped” with a six-pointed emblem symbolizing the Mont Blanc peak ... 1958. PA Images via Getty Images Montblanc ...
Four climbers from Italy and South Korea were found dead on the Alps' highest peak of Mont Blanc on Tuesday after they had been missing for three days in bad weather, the local French prefecture said.
By Amanda Holpuch Four climbers were found dead on Tuesday on Mont Blanc, the highest peak in the Alps, the French authorities in the region said. The climbers, who were from Italy and South Korea ...
The flurry of fastest known times (FKTs) on Mont Blanc continues. Just days after the Frenchman Benjamin Védrines set a new men's ski FKT ascending and descending the mountain from a church in ...