{"id":788,"date":"2025-12-05T13:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=788"},"modified":"2025-12-05T13:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:08:06","slug":"avalanche-in-italys-dolomite-mountains-kills-five-german-climbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=788","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche in Italy&#8217;s Dolomite mountains kills five German climbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>From Wikinews, the free news source you can write!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\">\n<div class=\"mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><strong class=\"published\"><span id=\"publishDate\" class=\"value-title\" title=\"2025-11-04\"\/>Tuesday, November 4, 2025<\/strong><br \/>\n<span class=\"Z3988\" style=\"display:none\" title=\"ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rfr_id=rfr_id=info:sid\/en.wikinews.org:User%3ADendodge&amp;rft_id=info:sid\/en.wikinews.org:Avalanche_in_Italy%27s_Dolomite_mountains_kills_five_German_climbers&amp;rft.atitle=Avalanche+in+Italy%26%2339%3Bs+Dolomite+mountains+kills+five+German+climbers&amp;rft.jtitle=Wikinews&amp;rft.date=2025-11-04&amp;rft.aucorp=Wikinews+contributors&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.rights=CC-BY+2.5&amp;rft.identifier=%2F%2Fen.wikinews.org%2Fwiki%2FAvalanche_in_Italy%2527s_Dolomite_mountains_kills_five_German_climbers&amp;rft.artnum=-\">\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"infobox noprint desktop-only\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right; width: 200px; background: #edf7ff; border: solid #666666 1px; padding: 0px; font-size: x-small; clear:right;\">\n<figure class=\"mw-halign-center\" typeof=\"mw:File\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/File:Blue_lightbar_(fire_and_rescue).jpg\" class=\"mw-file-description\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/9c\/Blue_lightbar_%28fire_and_rescue%29.jpg\/250px-Blue_lightbar_%28fire_and_rescue%29.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" class=\"mw-file-element\" srcset=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/9c\/Blue_lightbar_%28fire_and_rescue%29.jpg\/330px-Blue_lightbar_%28fire_and_rescue%29.jpg 1.5x, https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/9c\/Blue_lightbar_%28fire_and_rescue%29.jpg\/500px-Blue_lightbar_%28fire_and_rescue%29.jpg 2x\" data-file-width=\"1630\" data-file-height=\"1086\"\/><\/a><figcaption\/><\/figure>\n<p>Related articles<\/p>\n<p>Collaborate!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"mw-default-size mw-halign-left\" typeof=\"mw:File\/Thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/File:Flag_of_Italy_at_the_Museum_of_Flight_in_Seattle_(2024)_-_0554.jpg\" class=\"mw-file-description\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/e\/e0\/Flag_of_Italy_at_the_Museum_of_Flight_in_Seattle_%282024%29_-_0554.jpg\/250px-Flag_of_Italy_at_the_Museum_of_Flight_in_Seattle_%282024%29_-_0554.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" class=\"mw-file-element\" srcset=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/e\/e0\/Flag_of_Italy_at_the_Museum_of_Flight_in_Seattle_%282024%29_-_0554.jpg\/500px-Flag_of_Italy_at_the_Museum_of_Flight_in_Seattle_%282024%29_-_0554.jpg 1.5x\" data-file-width=\"4000\" data-file-height=\"6000\"\/><\/a><figcaption>File photo showing the flag of Italy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Saturday, <span class=\"interwiki-link-local\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/Italy\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Italy\">Italy<\/a><\/span>&#8216;s <span class=\"interwiki-link-foreign\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dolomites\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:Dolomites\">Dolomites<\/a><\/span> experienced an <span class=\"interwiki-link-local\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/Avalanche\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Avalanche\">avalanche<\/a><\/span>. Total dead included five <span class=\"interwiki-link-foreign\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/German\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:German\">German<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"interwiki-link-foreign\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/climber\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:climber\">climber<\/a><\/span>s. The avalanche happened around 4 p.m. on Saturday afternoon. The avalanche happened on Cima Vertana or (Vertainspitze) in the <span class=\"interwiki-link-foreign\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ortler_Alps\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:Ortler Alps\">Ortler Alps<\/a><\/span>. Cima Vertana has a 3,545-meter peak, in <span class=\"interwiki-link-foreign\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Tyrol\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:South Tyrol\">South Tyrol<\/a><\/span> near the <span class=\"interwiki-link-local\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/Switzerland\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Switzerland\">Switzerland<\/a><\/span> border. A father and daughter from a second group of climbers were taken down into a <span class=\"interwiki-link-foreign\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/gully\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:gully\">gully<\/a><\/span> and died.\n<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers said the hikers were climbing very late in the day. Two survivors were air lifted to a hospital in <span class=\"interwiki-link-foreign\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bolzano\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:Bolzano\">Bolzano<\/a><\/span>. Reports say recent snow drifts did not bond with the under ice, creating the sliding. Another group of three people were buried in the snow and recovered deceased on Saturday evening.\n<\/p>\n<p>Part of the search was made by Avalanche <span class=\"interwiki-link-local\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/Dog\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Dog\">dogs<\/a><\/span>.\n<\/p>\n<p><h2 id=\"Sources\">Sources<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nParsed by mw&#8208;web.codfw.main&#8208;677c5dbbd4&#8208;dhfcx\nCached time: 20251202024409\nCache expiry: 604800\nReduced expiry: true\nComplications: [vary&#8208;revision&#8208;sha1]\nCPU time usage: 0.154 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.243 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 1341\/1000000\nRevision size: 1814\/2097152 bytes\nPost&#8208;expand include size: 34843\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 11614\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 23\/100\nExpensive parser function count: 15\/500\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0\/20\nUnstrip post&#8208;expand size: 4325\/5000000 bytes\nLua time usage: 0.047\/10.000 seconds\nLua memory usage: 1608322\/52428800 bytes\nNumber of Wikibase entities loaded: 0\/500\n--><br \/>\n<!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00%  198.394      1 -total\n 61.77%  122.554      1 Template:Disasters_and_accidents\n 60.45%  119.921      2 Template:Infobox\n 58.59%  116.244      1 Template:Infobox\/p1\n 57.19%  113.461      1 Template:Infobox\/p2\n 51.64%  102.445     15 Template:Evalx\n 41.10%   81.547     14 Template:Infobox\/lookup\n 22.24%   44.129      1 Template:InfoboxStart\n 15.25%   30.256      1 Template:Publish\n 14.27%   28.311      1 Template:Social_bookmarks\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key enwikinews:stable-pcache:3033220:|#|:idhash:canonical and timestamp 20251202024409 and revision id 4925569. 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