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Mon 08 Aug 2008DEATH ON ALPS: storms add to toll
August 16th 2008:Briton Reg Clarke (70) and Dutchman Johannes Ruiter (47) found frozen to death minutes from their refuge after being caught in a storm near Naso del Lyskamm peak in the Italian Alps.
August 14th:Six people die in four separate accidents. Two Frenchmen fell to their deaths from the Bosses ridge and later two mountaineers, aged 21 and 22, died while descending the Col des Courtes. A 54-year-old hiker fell coming down the Dent d'Oche and a 65-year-old local trekker was killed after falling on rocks.
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