After 3 day of rain there was a covering of snow down to 2000 meters on the Belledonne mountains above Grenoble today. The weather has turned much colder with day temperatures reaching just 16C on Saturday.
An British climber has died of hypothermia on the dôme du Goûter in the Mont Blanc massive after spending two nights trapped in a snow cave. He had become disorientated. His companion, also British, survived. They had left the refuge Gonella, on the Italian side of the mountain, on Tueday morning at dawn. They made it to the summit of the Gouter but got lost in thick cloud with winds gusting to 50mph and spent the night in a snow cave at 4000meters. They alerted the rescue services on Wednesday morning but could not give their exact location. A team who set out from the Gouter refuge was unable to find them. On Thursday the surviving climber met rescue workers on the descent and informed them of the death of his partner.
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