Chamonix

Malvika Raaj is soaking in the relaxation at a retreat in the French Alps with her sister Sonaakshi Raaj and husband Pranav Bagga

On 8 August 1786 Jacques Balmat along with Doctor Michel Paccard, both from Chamonix, did the first ever recorded ascent to Mont Blanc. Google memorializes the 229th anniversary of the historic climb to the "White Mountain" by a frosty google doodle.

Two Irish mountaineers have died on Mont Blanc, bringing to four those killed there in just three days as concern mounts that the mountain range is becoming a tourism free-for-all.

Nine mountain climbers were killed in an avalanche near Chamonix in the French Alps on Thursday and rescue workers were searching for four others still missing, authorities said. The most deadly avalanche in the Alps since 2008 swept down a popular climbing route in the Mont Blanc range near the border with Switzerland at about 0300 GMT.

Malvika Raaj is soaking in the relaxation at a retreat in the French Alps with her sister Sonaakshi Raaj and husband Pranav Bagga

On 8 August 1786 Jacques Balmat along with Doctor Michel Paccard, both from Chamonix, did the first ever recorded ascent to Mont Blanc. Google memorializes the 229th anniversary of the historic climb to the "White Mountain" by a frosty google doodle.

Two Irish mountaineers have died on Mont Blanc, bringing to four those killed there in just three days as concern mounts that the mountain range is becoming a tourism free-for-all.

Nine mountain climbers were killed in an avalanche near Chamonix in the French Alps on Thursday and rescue workers were searching for four others still missing, authorities said. The most deadly avalanche in the Alps since 2008 swept down a popular climbing route in the Mont Blanc range near the border with Switzerland at about 0300 GMT.