Three killed in Mont Blanc avalanche

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.

The Polish-British woman, a Slovakian woman and their German guide were climbing Mont Blanc's Mont Maudit at 4,100 metres (13,450ft) when a tower of ice swept over them early on Tuesday and they fell 150 metres (500ft) to their deaths, said the mountain rescue team chief in the French town of Chamonix.