{"id":158803,"date":"2025-11-02T13:16:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T13:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/158803\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T13:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T13:16:16","slug":"five-german-climbers-killed-in-italian-alps-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/158803\/","title":{"rendered":"Five German climbers killed in Italian Alps avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five German climbers have died after being caught in an avalanche in the Italian Alps, local authorities have said.<\/p>\n<p>The climbers had set out yesterday to scale Cima Vertana in the Ortler mountain range near the village of Solda.<\/p>\n<p>The avalanche struck as they headed for the summit and swept away members of two separate rope teams.<\/p>\n<p>The bodies of two men and a woman were recovered yesterday, while the two other victims, a father and his 17-year-old daughter, were found this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Two other climbers escaped unharmed.<\/p>\n<p>The Ortler massif, part of the Italian Alps close to the Swiss border, is a popular destination for experienced hikers and climbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five German climbers have died after being caught in an avalanche in the Italian Alps, local authorities have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-158803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115480296354157086","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}