Word directly from an S&R team member is that it was definitely Mont Maudit, a HUGE serac came crashing down directly hitting one group higher up the face and triggering a large wind slab avalanche thought to have been 150m wide that hit a second group further down.
The death toll currently stands at 9 with more missing, three of the dead are thought to be Brits, two more are missing, no more info than that so far.
Edited: 12/07/2012 at 17:39
