Five climbers died over the weekend and a sixth was reported missing as bad weather swept over the French Alps.
Rescue teams on Mont Blanc also came across the body of a Russian skier missing since March, named as Mr Alexandre Faucoloff, the police said.
Three Frenchmen died of exhaustion and exposure while attempting to climb Mont Blanc and the search for a companion had to be called off because of the poor weather conditions.
The four set out on Friday to scale Mont Blanc, a 4,800 metre (13,800 ft) peak which straddles the borders of France and Italy, and sent out a distress signal hours later as a storm set in.
Elsewhere in the northern Alps, a couple from the French city of Lyon died after falling some 250 metres (800 feet) while climbing at an altitude of 3,200 metres (10,500 ft).
The deaths follow yesterdays tragedy in Strasbourg where 11 people were by a falling tree when a storm swept through an open-air concert.