Two British climbers have been killed by an avalanche in the French Alps
Their next of kin have been informed.
One of the climbers has been named as Rob Gauntlett, who became the youngest British man ever to climb Mount Everest in 2006.
He scaled the world's highest peak just after his 19th birthday in May 2006.
Speaking from Mr Gauntlett's family home in Petworth, West Sussex, his mother Nicola Gauntlett said they were "devastated".
She said he and an unnamed best friend had been ice-climbing in Chamonix when there was a "big fall".
Mrs Gauntlett said: "At the moment we don't know exactly what happened but there was obviously a big fall and they both died. We've only just been told the news."
She said they arrived in the region on January 2 and were due back in the UK on Wednesday.
Mrs Gauntlett added that she and her husband, David, would be travelling to France tomorrow.
She went on: "We are all just devastated. He's far too young to die. We had spoken about something like this happening only recently.
"We can only take consolation that he died doing something that he loved."
The identity of the other climber has not been disclosed.
Source:Yahoo News
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