Teen killed in tragic glacier crevasse fall

A 17-year-old Japanese youth fell to his death while out walking at the foot of the Monte Rosa mountain in the southern canton of Valais with his father on Thursday.

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Teen killed in tragic glacier crevasse fall

Accidents claim three lives in the Swiss mountains over the weekend

Report: further landslides likely in Bondo

Climbers rescued after a chilly night on the Jungfrau summit

Swiss peak serves as stage for slackline meet

Swiss resort unveils huge ‘natural’ fresco on mountain

Lidl uses German mountain to promote its Swiss products

2015

Swiss man summits all 4,000m alpine peaks

2014

How to summer holiday up a Swiss mountain

2012

Pakistan calls off search for missing climbers

2011

Scout dies in 300-metre fall

Swiss climber falls to his death on birthday hike

Latest headlines

Swiss NGO links Syngenta pesticide to Indian farmer deaths

Violence against women: French police arrest three over brutal Geneva attack

Spain rejects extraditing 'Swiss Leaks' Hervé Falciani

Switzerland's Nestlé agrees to sell insurance unit for $1.55 billion

Could Switzerland see a record number of mountain deaths this year?

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