The bodies of three climbers, including a Polish-British woman, buried in an avalanche of ice and snow on the Mont Blanc massif have been found and dug out from the thick ice.

A coroner has said it was “quite shocking” that no investigation was carried out in France into an accident in the Alps which claimed the lives of two Irish mountaineers.

The Irish climbing community has reacted with shock and devastation to the deaths of two Irish climbers on Mont Blanc.