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Mother sees family die on mountain

Updated on 24 July 2008

Source PA News

A father, his son and two daughters all fell to their deaths climbing Mont Blanc as their mother looked on in horror.

The Dutch family plunged 1,600 feet on a slope of rock, ice and snow on Europe's highest mountain.

The couple's children were aged from 14 to 20, Italian mountain rescuers said.

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