{"id":117753,"date":"2025-11-02T14:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T14:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/117753\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T14:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T14:08:08","slug":"five-german-climbers-killed-in-italian-alps-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/117753\/","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":117754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-117753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}