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Study Explains How Climate Change May Be Causing Minor Tremors In Alps
A new study links climate change-induced glacier melt in the Alps to a surge in minor earthquakes, warning that seismic risk may rise globally as glaciers continue to shrink.
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French Mountaineer Benjamin Vedrines Sets New Mont Blanc Speed Climb Record
Rising French mountaineering star Benjamin Vedrines broke the record for the fastest ascent and descent of western Europe's highest mountain Mont Blanc, beating a mark that had stood for over a decade, his team said Sunday.
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Mont Blanc Shrinks By Over 2 Metres Since 2021
Experts said that France's tallest mountain was losing around 13 centimetres of height every year.
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French Climber Allowed To Keep Gems Found In 2013 At Air India Crash Site
A treasure trove of emeralds, rubies and sapphires buried for decades on a glacier off France's Mont Blanc has finally been shared between the climber who discovered them and local authorities, eight years after they were found.
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Mountaineer Dies On Mont Blanc Despite Rescue Attempts
A French mountaineer died close to the summit of Mont Blanc on Friday after rescuers made several attempts to get to him in a violent storm.
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Indian Newspapers From 1966 Found On Melting Glacier In France: Reports
Indian newspaper copies with headlines such as "India's First Woman Prime Minister", referring to Indira Gandhi's election win in 1966, have been recovered from the melting French glacier of Bossons on the Mont Blanc mountain range in western Europe, 54 years after an Air India plane crashed there.
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Two Ships Collided In Halifax Harbor. One Of Them Was A Floating, 3,000-Ton Bomb.
On the bright, freezing morning of Dec. 6, 1917, a French captain steered his ship, the SS Mont Blanc, up the channel leading to the piers of Halifax, Canada's major Atlantic port.
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A Mont Blanc Pen, An Apple Watch Lands Left Lawmaker In Big Mess
A Left parliamentarian in Kolkata is in the soup after going for a football match in which he was photographed with a Mont Blanc pen and an Apple watch. But what he did in response to photos on social media has earned him even worse condemnation.
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For 30 Trapped In Cable Cars Overnight, Helicopters Dropped Off Food
Nearly 40 people who were forced to spend the night in cable cars near Europe's highest mountain, Mont Blanc, are saf after the service was re-started.
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Google Memorializes First Ascent to Mont Blanc
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.
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Three Climbers Die After 800-Metre Fall From Mont Blanc: Police
Two climbers and their guide have fallen 800 metres to their death in the Mont Blanc range, police said on Monday, the latest in a series of tragedies on Europe's highest mountain.
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Five Climbers Dead on Mont Blanc Peak, Sixth Missing
Five climbers died and a sixth went missing on Wednesday on France's Mont Blanc, officials said.
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Bodies of Two Belgian Climbers Found on France's Mont Blanc
The bodies of two Belgian climbers who were swept away by falling rocks and ice on France's Mont Blanc mountain were found on Saturday after two days of searching, police rescue officials said.
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Two More Mont Blanc Deaths Amid Fears of Tourist Free-For-All
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.
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Mumbai high rise fire: 'It just seems like a dungeon'
The death of seven people in Friday evening's fire at a high rise building in south Mumbai has left 20-year-old Khushaal Talreja and his family in a state of shock.
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Study Explains How Climate Change May Be Causing Minor Tremors In Alps
A new study links climate change-induced glacier melt in the Alps to a surge in minor earthquakes, warning that seismic risk may rise globally as glaciers continue to shrink.
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French Mountaineer Benjamin Vedrines Sets New Mont Blanc Speed Climb Record
Rising French mountaineering star Benjamin Vedrines broke the record for the fastest ascent and descent of western Europe's highest mountain Mont Blanc, beating a mark that had stood for over a decade, his team said Sunday.
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Mont Blanc Shrinks By Over 2 Metres Since 2021
Experts said that France's tallest mountain was losing around 13 centimetres of height every year.
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French Climber Allowed To Keep Gems Found In 2013 At Air India Crash Site
A treasure trove of emeralds, rubies and sapphires buried for decades on a glacier off France's Mont Blanc has finally been shared between the climber who discovered them and local authorities, eight years after they were found.
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Mountaineer Dies On Mont Blanc Despite Rescue Attempts
A French mountaineer died close to the summit of Mont Blanc on Friday after rescuers made several attempts to get to him in a violent storm.
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Indian Newspapers From 1966 Found On Melting Glacier In France: Reports
Indian newspaper copies with headlines such as "India's First Woman Prime Minister", referring to Indira Gandhi's election win in 1966, have been recovered from the melting French glacier of Bossons on the Mont Blanc mountain range in western Europe, 54 years after an Air India plane crashed there.
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Two Ships Collided In Halifax Harbor. One Of Them Was A Floating, 3,000-Ton Bomb.
On the bright, freezing morning of Dec. 6, 1917, a French captain steered his ship, the SS Mont Blanc, up the channel leading to the piers of Halifax, Canada's major Atlantic port.
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A Mont Blanc Pen, An Apple Watch Lands Left Lawmaker In Big Mess
A Left parliamentarian in Kolkata is in the soup after going for a football match in which he was photographed with a Mont Blanc pen and an Apple watch. But what he did in response to photos on social media has earned him even worse condemnation.
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For 30 Trapped In Cable Cars Overnight, Helicopters Dropped Off Food
Nearly 40 people who were forced to spend the night in cable cars near Europe's highest mountain, Mont Blanc, are saf after the service was re-started.
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Google Memorializes First Ascent to Mont Blanc
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.
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Three Climbers Die After 800-Metre Fall From Mont Blanc: Police
Two climbers and their guide have fallen 800 metres to their death in the Mont Blanc range, police said on Monday, the latest in a series of tragedies on Europe's highest mountain.
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Five Climbers Dead on Mont Blanc Peak, Sixth Missing
Five climbers died and a sixth went missing on Wednesday on France's Mont Blanc, officials said.
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Bodies of Two Belgian Climbers Found on France's Mont Blanc
The bodies of two Belgian climbers who were swept away by falling rocks and ice on France's Mont Blanc mountain were found on Saturday after two days of searching, police rescue officials said.
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Two More Mont Blanc Deaths Amid Fears of Tourist Free-For-All
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.
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Mumbai high rise fire: 'It just seems like a dungeon'
The death of seven people in Friday evening's fire at a high rise building in south Mumbai has left 20-year-old Khushaal Talreja and his family in a state of shock.
