Rockfall severs rescuers' ropes

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Two members of the San Vito di Cadore Mountain Rescue service died early Wednesday morning as they tried to reach two German climbers stranded on Italy's Monte Pelmo. Foggy conditions in the Dolomites had ruled out a rescue by helicopter, forcing Alberto Bonafede and Aldo Giustina to rappel off Pelmo's 10,300-foot summit. The men fell some 700 hundred meters when a large rockfall cut their ropes. The stranded climbers were later rescued by helicopter, but continuing rockfalls have kept authorities from recovering the bodies of either Bonafede or Guistina. Dry weather conditions near the France-Italy border are believed to have caused a rockfall last week that closed a popular climbing route up Mount Blanc.

关键词: 落石

2名德国人被困Pelmo山, 直升机因大雾不能出动. 2名救援人员从顶部下降, 突然发生巨大的落石砸断了他们的绳子, 2人跌落700米身亡. 被困者后来被直升机救出, 但救援人员的尸体因持续的落石仍未找到.

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