LYON (AFP) - A British man and his 12-year-old son were found dead Sunday in the Mont-Blanc massif that spreads around Europe's highest peak, rescuers said. Their bodies were found a day after contact was last made with the 48-year-old father, who had called an emergency centre to say that his son had had a fall and was out of reach. Rescuers lost contact and launched their search with little information on the exact location of the pair. They had ventured into the sprawling Mont-Blanc range's Bossons area without adequate equipment, Patrice Ribes, from the gendarmerie in the nearby town of Chamonix, told AFP.
A helicopter spotted them at 0600 GMT on Sunday, at an altitude of 1,600 metres.