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An Italian mountaineer died this afternoon after a fall in the Mont Blanc massif, French mountain rescue reported without giving the victim’s name. The man fell in the early afternoon in the sector of the Dente del Gigante, a spur of rock at 4,013 meters above sea level, located on the Franco-Italian border, on the north side of Mont Blanc. The body of the climber was transported to Chamonix by the Platoon of the High Mountain Gendarmerie