Bolzano

Viki Grošelj, the Slovenian mountaineer with the largest number of eight-thousanders under his belt and the first Slovenian to have climbed all the highest peaks of the globe's continents, has made the prestigious Rock & Ice Stars list of names engraved at the entrance to Reinhold Messner's Firmian museum in Bolzano.

Six people were killed in northern Italy after a car crashed into a group of tourists, DPA reported, citing Bolzano police. According to initial data, the dead were German nationals.

Local radio reported that the car crashed into a group of 17 people. Six people were killed and several were seriously injured.

Police are investigating the cause of the accident.

Four helicopters evacuated more than 150 people blocked in a four-star hotel and other remote buildings in the Italian Alps after an avalanche, the Associated Press reported, referring to the authorities.