A British man in his 50s has reportedly plunged to his death near the foot of France's tallest mountain Mont Blanc, police have said.
Police in the Chamonix region told Agence France-Presse that the unnamed hiker was taking a difficult track near the Bionnassay glacier, the smallest on the French side of the Mont-Blanc massif, at a spot known called Eagle's Nest.
He fell about 50 metres and was instantly killed, emergency responders said. Mont Blanc is western Europe's highest mountain at 4,800 metres and attracts 20,000 hikers and skiers every year.
