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Friday, July 25, 2008 --- 44 days ago http://www.gossiprocks.com/forum/news/77862-mother-watches-husband-kids-die-ital
| (in other depressing news....) Mother watches husband, kids die on Italy climb (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/07/24/international/i105928D30.DTL&tsp=1) (07-24) 12:24 PDT MILAN, Italy (AP) -- *A Dutch woman watched her husband and three children fall to their deaths Thursday while climbing near Mont Blanc, Europe's highest peak, Italian rescuers said.* *The 56-year-old man, who was roped to his son and two daughters, plunged 500 meters (1,600 feet) down a slope of rock, ice and snow as their mother watched from below, said Oscar Tajola, head of the mountain rescue corps in the nearby town of Courmayeur.* *"We had to take her to hospital because she was in shock," Tajola said by telephone. "We think one of them slipped and pulled the others down."* *_The woman, 50, was later released from hospital and identified the bodies of her husband and her children, aged 17 to 23, police in the ski-resort town said._* The family was climbing 3,800-meter (12,500-foot) Mont Dolent, which is part of the Mont Blanc massif. The 4,810-meter (15,780-foot) Mont Blanc straddles Italy and France and attracts hundreds of climbers a year. Dozens of them die on the massif each year. ... |
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