Safety & Advisories
On 28 February 2026, three men ended up in the same crevasse on the Alps' second-highest massif. Two were pulled out alive. Rodolfo Franguelli, 61…
By Laxman Rawal · Jul 28, 2026
Shortly after 1:30pm on 28 February 2026, a French ski mountaineer broke through a snow bridge on Colle Vincent — a col near 4,000 metres on the Monte Rosa massif, the second-highest mountain in the Alps, straddling the Italian–Swiss border — and dropped into…
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Crevasses are the quiet killer of glacier travel. They hide under a skin of wind-blown snow, they open without warning, and — as Colle Vincent showed — the instinct to rush to a fallen companion is exactly what claims the second and third victim. That is why…
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