A British woman has died in the French Alps while hiking because of an avalanche.
A British woman has died while hiking in the French Alps.
Mountain rescuers took a helicopter in an attempt to rescue the walker, thought to be 45, who was ‘in a bad situation’. She was collected from Mont Blanc’s Argentiere Glacier around 5pm on Saturday, but couldn’t be saved.Around 80 people die on the Mont Blanc massif every year. Colonel Bertrand Host, of the mountain rescue gendarmerie in Chamonix, said: ‘When we arrived we had to rescue this person but she was in a bad situation and we evacuated her from the valley.A spokesperson from the Foreign Office said: ‘We are providing assistance to the family of a British woman who died in France.’
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