Father and son 'found dead in Alps' (From Prestwich and Whitefield Guide)
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Father and son 'found dead in Alps'
11:28am Sunday 17th March 2013 in National News © Press Association 2013
Rescue services in Chamonix received a call for help from a man who informed them his son had fallen into a crevasse near Mont Blanc
A British man and his 12-year-old son who were on a hiking trip in the French Alps have been found dead, it was reported.
Rescue services in Chamonix received a call for help on Saturday from a 48-year-old man who informed them his son had fallen into a crevasse near Mont Blanc.
Emergency services had attempted to trace the man's mobile phone call after launching a rescue operation, Captain Patrice Ribes told Sky News.
A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We are urgently looking into reports that two British nationals have been found dead in the French Alps."
