Editing Mont Blanc (section)

=== Fatalities ===
A 1994 estimate suggests there had been 6,000 to 8,000 alpinist fatalities in total, more than on any other mountain.<ref name="Dumler" />{{rp|208}} These numbers exclude the fatalities of [[Air India Flight 245]] and [[Air India Flight 101]], two planes that crashed into Mont Blanc. Despite [[circular reporting|unsubstantiated claims recurring in media]] that "some estimates put the fatality rate at an average of 100 hikers a year",<ref>{{Cite web |date=25 July 2012 |title=Why is Mont Blanc One of the World's Deadliest Mountains? |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/07/why-is-mont-blanc-one-of-the-worlds-deadliest-mountains/260143/ |website=[[The Atlantic]] |access-date=10 March 2017 |archive-date=25 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170125140404/http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/07/why-is-mont-blanc-one-of-the-worlds-deadliest-mountains/260143/ |url-status=live }}</ref> actual reported annual numbers at least since the 1990s are between 10 and 20: in 2017, fourteen people died out of 20,000 summit attempts, and two remained missing; with 15 in 2018 as of August.<ref>{{cite news |date=10 August 2018 |title=Body of one of Italian Mont Blanc climbing trio found |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45150304 |access-date=11 September 2019 |archive-date=15 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190715190854/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45150304 |url-status=live }}</ref>

A French study on the especially risky "[[Goûter Route|Goûter couloir]], on the normal route on Mont Blanc" and necessary rescue operations found that, between 1990 and 2011, there were 74 deaths "between the Tête Rousse refuge (3,187 m) and the Goûter refuge (3,830 m)". There were 17 more in 2012–15, none in 2016, and 11 in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fondation Petzl |url=https://www.petzl.com/fondation/projets/accidents-couloir-gouter?language=en |access-date=13 January 2020 |archive-date=12 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212151559/https://www.petzl.com/fondation/projets/accidents-couloir-gouter?language=en |url-status=live }}</ref>