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A New Zealand woman is one of four climbers who have died in a mountaineering accident in the French Alps, the AFP news agency reports.
The group got into trouble at 4052m on Monday night while trying to scale Mont Blanc, the agency said.
The other climbers were a Frenchman and women from Britain and Chile.
Violent winds and snowstorms hampered a rescue effort.
- NZHERALD STAFF
