AOSTA, Italy, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- The bodies of a 70-year-old British climber and a Dutch guide were found Saturday in the Italian Alps.
Reginald Clarke, 70, of London and the guide set out to reach the Naso del Lyskamm peak of Monte Rosa Friday despite an impending storm, The Observer reported. A guide found their frozen bodies more than 12,000 feet above sea level.
The Italian news agency Ansa identified the guide as Johannes Ruiter, 47.
Adriano Favre, who heads rescue services in the Valle d'Aosta, said the pair may have become lost trying to descend to the Gnifetti shelter. They were then caught in a storm impossible to survive at that height in the open.
Storms that swept through Italy and parts of Central Europe killed at least five others Friday, Deutsche Welle reported. The dead included a boy, 10, hit by lightning in Turin, a man drowned in Genoa, a woman hit by a fallen tree while hiking in Austria and deaths from tornadoes in southern Poland.
