Avalanche in Italy’s Dolomite mountains kills five German climbers

Tuesday, November 4, 2025
 

Disasters and accidents

Related articles

• 24 September 2025: Country music songwriter Brett James dies in North Carolina plane crash
• 15 September 2025: Thousands of pagers explode in Lebanon killing twelve people and injuring thousands
• 19 August 2025: Three-car crash in New Hampshire on Frederick E. Everett Turnpike kills one
• 6 August 2025: Several people hospitalized after thousands of hotdogs spill following collision on interstate in Pennsylvania
• 28 July 2025: Train derails in southwest Germany after landslide, causing deaths

Collaborate!

• Pillars of Wikinews writing
• Writing an article

On Saturday, Italy‘s Dolomites experienced an avalanche. Total dead included five German climbers. The avalanche happened around 4 p.m. on Saturday afternoon. The avalanche happened on Cima Vertana or (Vertainspitze) in the Ortler Alps. Cima Vertana has a 3,545-meter peak, in South Tyrol near the Switzerland border. A father and daughter from a second group of climbers were taken down into a gully and died.

Rescuers said the hikers were climbing very late in the day. Two survivors were air lifted to a hospital in Bolzano. Reports say recent snow drifts did not bond with the under ice, creating the sliding. Another group of three people were buried in the snow and recovered deceased on Saturday evening.

Part of the search was made by Avalanche dogs.

• Dearbail Jordan. Avalanche in Italy kills five including father and daughter — BBC News, November 2, 2025
• Sonja Issel. Five German nationals killed in avalanche in Italy’s South Tyrol province — Euro News., November 2, 2025
  

Share this: