At least 80 people trapped in cable cars stuck near the Mont Blanc mountain in the Alps will have to spend the night in the suspended gondolas, according to French police. French, Swiss and Italian helicopter teams have successfully removed 30 people from the cable cars, before suspending operations at 9 p.m. local time, Nationale Gendarmerie said on Twitter. The remaining passengers were given food, water and survival blankets to wait out their rescue. The cable cars are suspended between mountains Aiguille du Midi and Pointe Helbronner in the Chamonix resort area in France, around 1.6 miles above the ground, the French National Police said,...
- 9/8/2016
- by Peter Mikelbank and Lindsay Kimble
- PEOPLE.com
At least 80 people trapped in cable cars stuck near the Mont Blanc mountain in the Alps will have to spend the night in the suspended gondolas, according to French police. French, Swiss and Italian helicopter teams have successfully removed 30 people from the cable cars, before suspending operations at 9 p.m. local time, Nationale Gendarmerie said on Twitter. The remaining passengers were given food, water and survival blankets to wait out their rescue. The cable cars are suspended between mountains Aiguille du Midi and Pointe Helbronner in the Chamonix resort area in France, around 1.6 miles above the ground, the French National Police said,...
- 9/8/2016
- by Peter Mikelbank and Lindsay Kimble
- PEOPLE.com
A year after her tumultuous breakup with Gad Elmaleh, things are "remarkably normal" in Charlotte Casiraghi's life, a source tells People. Monaco's celebrated "princess without a title" (who is eighth in line to Monaco's throne and turns 30 on Wednesday) is "happy for the moment, enjoying what seems quiet stability" with Italian filmmaker Lamberto Sanfelice, 42. The couple, who reportedly met at the 2015 wedding of Beatrice Borromeo to Charlotte's brother Pierre, have been dating since October, and joined her mother Princess Caroline on a family skiing vacation in Zurs in January. This spring, Charlotte - whose grandmother is the late American actress-turned-...
- 8/2/2016
- by Peter Mikelbank, @pmikelbank
- PEOPLE.com
Pippa Middleton has conquered the Matterhorn. The younger sister of Princess Kate reached the summit of the Matterhorn in Switzerland with her brother, James, her partner scaling Mont Blanc in 2008. The climb was in-character for the adventure-seeker, but it also came with a greater purpose in mind. Pippa, who became engaged to financier James Matthews earlier this month, did the climb to raise money for the Michael Matthews Foundation in honor of her fiancé's brother who died while scaling Mount Everest in 1999. He was 22 and was the youngest Briton ever to have scaled the peak at the time. "It was...
- 7/31/2016
- by Stephanie Petit, @stephpetit_
- PEOPLE.com
Estelle Balet, a Swiss snowboarding world champion, was killed in an avalanche on La Portalet, a mountain on the Mont Blanc massif near Switzerland's southwest border with Italy and France on Tuesday, according to NBC News. She was 21. Balet, the 2015 Woman Snowboard Freeride World champion and Valais Sport Awards 2015 Athlete of the Year, was shooting a film on the mountain, according to NBC News. Police said that Balet was the second snowboarder to pass through a ravine around 8 a.m. local time, triggering the avalanche. The other snowboarder was not injured, according to the New York Times. Despite attempts at resuscitation,...
- 4/19/2016
- by Lindsay Kimble, @lekimble
- PEOPLE.com
Estelle Balet, a Swiss snowboarding world champion, was killed in an avalanche on La Portalet, a mountain on the Mont Blanc massif near Switzerland's southwest border with Italy and France on Tuesday, according to NBC News. She was 21. Balet, the 2015 Woman Snowboard Freeride World champion and Valais Sport Awards 2015 Athlete of the Year, was shooting a film on the mountain, according to NBC News. Police said that Balet was the second snowboarder to pass through a ravine around 8 a.m. local time, triggering the avalanche. The other snowboarder was not injured, according to the New York Times. Despite attempts at resuscitation,...
- 4/19/2016
- by Lindsay Kimble, @lekimble
- PEOPLE.com
This morning the official 2013 Cannes Film Festival line-up was announced from Paris, France. The committee saw 1,858 films submitted this year and while additional titles will continue to be announced, this morning we got the full Competition and Un Certain Regard lineup and it looks amazing so far. Among the films announced In Competition so far, many were expected including Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives, Steven Soderbergh's Behind the Candelabra, Roman Polanski's Venus in Fur, Asghar Farhadi's The Past and Joel and Ethan Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis. Additionally James Gray's once titled Lowlife starring Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix and Jeremy Renner will play, but under the name The Immigrant and Takashi Miike's cop thriller Wara No Tate (Straw Shield) has also made the competition list. However, the biggest "surprise" is the inclusion of Alexander Payne's black-and-white film Nebraska, which is sure to be a big attention getter,...
- 4/18/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The Cannes Film Festival has announced which short films have made it to the festival competition.
For the first time, a Palestinian film is included in the competition, with a film called Condom Lead, by Mohammed and Ahmad Abou Nasser.
The other competition short films are Ali Asgari’s More Than Two Hours (Iran), Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson’s Whale Valley (Iceland, Denmark), Omoi Sasaki’s The Metorite and Impotence (Japan), Gilles Coulier’s Mont Blanc (Belgium), Elzbieta Benkowska’s Olena (Poland), Annarita Zambrano’s Ophelia (France), Byounggon Moon’s Safe (South Korea) and Adriano Valerio’s 37º 4 S (France).
Over 3,500 short films were submitted,...
For the first time, a Palestinian film is included in the competition, with a film called Condom Lead, by Mohammed and Ahmad Abou Nasser.
The other competition short films are Ali Asgari’s More Than Two Hours (Iran), Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson’s Whale Valley (Iceland, Denmark), Omoi Sasaki’s The Metorite and Impotence (Japan), Gilles Coulier’s Mont Blanc (Belgium), Elzbieta Benkowska’s Olena (Poland), Annarita Zambrano’s Ophelia (France), Byounggon Moon’s Safe (South Korea) and Adriano Valerio’s 37º 4 S (France).
Over 3,500 short films were submitted,...
- 4/16/2013
- by Amanda Taylor
- EW - Inside Movies
Short Films In Competition: Ali Asgari Bishtar Az Do Saat (More than two Hours) 15’ Iran Mohammed Abou Nasser, Ahmad Abou Nasser Condom Lead 14’ Palestine, Jordan Gudmundur Gudmundsson Hvalfjordur (Whale Valley) 15’ Iceland,...
- 4/16/2013
- by Ryan Adams
- AwardsDaily.com
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