A British woman has died in an avalanche while trekking in the French Alps, local authorities said.
She was brought off Mont Blanc’s Argentiere Glacier by mountain rescuers with a helicopter, but they were unable to save her life. Colonel Bertrand Host, of the mountain rescue gendarmerie in Chamonix, said his team was called to the glacier at about 5pm local time on Saturday.
He said: “When we arrived we had to rescue this person, but she was in a bad situation and we evacuated her from the valley. She was taken charge by rescuers and two dogs, but we didn’t manage to reanimate her.”
