Father, Son Die in Alps Hiking Trip (VIDEO)

French rescue teams found the British pair after they reportedly fell to their deaths while on a “dangerous” Mont Blanc trail. A British father and his 12-year-old son who went missing while hiking in the Alps have been found dead.

Rescue services in Chamonix were called by the 48-year-old man at 2pm local time on Saturday.

He apparently said his son had fallen into a crevasse near Mont Blanc and that they were lost.

Captain Patrice Ribes, a French police officer, told Sky News that emergency services tried to trace the mobile phone call and launched a rescue mission.

But the rescuers lost contact and had to launch their search with little information about the pair’s location.

A helicopter eventually spotted their bodies on Sunday morning at an altitude of 1,600m.

Capt Ribes said: “We think the father tried to find his son after he called us and asked for rescue. We believe he fell as he tried to find his son. Their bodies were found together this morning at 7.40am.”

The father and son, who have not yet been named, had ventured into the Glacier des Bossons area of the Mont Blanc mountain range.

Capt Ribes said they had inadequate equipment and were exploring a “dangerous, deep, snowy” mountain trail.

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A Foreign Office spokesman said: “We are urgently looking into reports that two British nationals have been found dead in the French Alps.”