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Avalanche hit climbers on Mont Blanc
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-08-25 11:46

Rescue teams in a chopper scan the Alpine snow of France's highest peak the Mont Blanc in the French Alps' following an avalanche late on August 23, that buried three Swiss and five Austrian climbers. Rescuers on Sunday suspended their hunt for eight climbers missing in the avalanche, as France's interior minister warned there is "no longer any chance of finding someone alive. [Agencies]