Three more climbers die on Monte Rosa massif

Three more climbers have died near Switzerland's highest mountain. It's the second such tragedy in 24 hours after a collapsed snow cornice sent three other mountaineers plunging to their deaths on Sunday. Two of the climbers who died Monday morning were attempting to summit the 4092 metre (13,425-foot) Pollux peak when they slipped on an ice sheet and fell several hundred metres. The other was on the way to the Castor peak in the same group of mountains.  The three climbers killed Sunday died in a fall of 800 metres from the southern, Italian side of Signalkuppe, a 4,554-metre peak along the Swiss-Italian border in the Pennine Alps, according to rescuers. In Italy, the peak is known as Punta Gnifetti. It is part of the huge snow and glacial ice-covered Monte Rosa massif, whose highest point is the 4,634-metre (15,203 feet) Dufourspitze, Switzerland’s tallest mountain. The summit of the Signalkuppe also is home to the Margherita Hut, Europe’s highest building, ...