By Ruth Brown 
From: http://www.newser.com/story/166274/meet-the-queen-of-ultrarunning.html
Tag Archives: Mont Blanc
Tearing down the technological 'Tower of Babel' along international borders
On the morning of December 6, 1917, in the port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, near the U.S. border in Maine, a French ship, the Mont Blanc, filled with military explosives collided with another vessel. Twenty minutes later, a fire set off the Mont Blanc‘s volatile cargo and caused a catastrophic explosion—killing thousands and destroying an entire section of the city. Rescue efforts were dispatched immediately from the Canadian mainland as well as the United States, but confusion and lack of immediate information delayed some of the rescue efforts for hours. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Phys.org
British climber, son fall to death in French Alps
Police say a British climber and his 12-year-old son have been found dead after plunging several hundred yards down a mountain in the French Alps.
Capt. Patrice Ribes of the mountain gendarme service in Chamonix said the father alerted rescuers by telephone Saturday that his son had fallen. Rescuers found both of them dead early Sunday on a slope between Bossons and Les Houches beneath Mont Blanc.
Ribes said the father, who was 48, had apparently fallen himself while trying to rescue his son. He said the two were well-equipped for climbing in summer conditions but not enough for winter.
Their identities were not released. The British Foreign Office was helping the family.
The Mont Blanc massif is one of Europe‘s most popular — and deadly — climbing areas.