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SHOTLIST Near Gressoney, 8 July 2004 1. View from vehicle, road sign reads: "Gressoney St. Jean", vehicle drives through bad weather conditions 2. Foggy weather on mountains 3. Exterior of mountain guide's office on Monte Rosa, zoom in on sign 4. Cable cars in Staffal, near Gressoney, pull out to wide shot of mountain 5. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Adriano Favre, Director, Aosta Rescue Centre for Alps: "It has been a difficult operation - as it is every time it happens in bad weather conditions - because we couldn't use the helicopter, so we had to move the teams on the ground at an altitude of four thousand metres in very bad weather conditions." Aosta, 8 July 2004 6. Exterior of rescue centre in Aosta airport 7. Helicopter 8. Rescue centre in Aosta airport. 9. Various of monitors showing position of rescue teams by GPS (global positioning system) 10. Various of master control in Aosta rescue centre 11. Various exteriors of emergency room in Aosta hospital Champoluc, 9 July 2004 12. Various of mountains 13. Pan from road to morgue 14. Various views through morgue window with two bodies in red plastic bags 15. Pan of cemetery in Champoluc STORYLINE: Four French mountaineers died and two were injured after embarking on an expedition in the Italian Alps in poor weather. The six set off on Wednesday at around four-thousand metres (13,000 feet) altitude on Mount Rosa, in northwestern Italy, on the Swiss border. They had been expected at a shelter on Thursday morning but didn't appear. Rescuers searched for the six all day on Thursday but failed to locate them, and had been planning to call off operations for the night. But a brief improvement in weather allowed them to do a helicopter sweep, during which they found the bodies and survivors at around 4,225 metres (13,860 feet), the Italian ANSA news agency said. ANSA said the six had fallen during their descent. Adriano Favre, director of the Aosta Rescue Centre, said it had been a difficult operation. He did not disclose the identities of the dead or injured. The two survivors were seriously injured and have been transferred to a hospital in the city of Aosta, according to local reports. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/154da2984675355c90034dfdcd243337 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork