(5 Jul 2022) FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4387239, 4387202 ASSOCIATED PRESS Marmolada Mountain, Italy - 5 July 2022 1. Various aerials of giant hole where the avalanche started HEADLINE: Rescuers search for hikers after avalanche in Italy ASSOCIATED PRESS Canazei, Italy - 5 July 2022 2. Helicopter taking off ANNOTATION: Rescuers are searching for several missing hikers after a powerful avalanche killed at least seven people in the Italian Alps. ASSOCIATED PRESS Marmolada Mountain, Italy - 5 July 2022 3. Interior of helicopter 4. Aerial of giant hole where the avalanche started ANNOTATION: The avalanche was triggered after a huge chunk of the Marmolada glacier cleaved off Sunday, crashing into hikers on the mountainside below. ASSOCIATED PRESS Canazei, Italy - 5 July 2022 5. Various of helicopters landing and taking off ANNOTATION: Rescuers are using helicopters and drones to search for the missing. But they say the chances of finding people alive are remote. 6. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Maurizio Dellantonio, national president of Alpine Rescue: "We recovered a lot of fragments in the last two days. It is very painful for those who pick them up and then for those who have to analyze them." ASSOCIATED PRESS Marmolada Mountain, Italy - 5 July 2022 7. Tilt down from firefighters helicopter patrolling avalanche area to lower part of avalanche ANNOTATION: Experts say rising temperatures driven by climate change are melting glaciers and likely contributed to Sunday's deadly avalanche. ASSOCIATED PRESS Canazei, Italy - 5 July 2022 8. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Nicola Casagli, geologist and avalanche expert at Florence university: "If we do not change and if we do not take decisive measures to counter the effects of climate change, they will become more and more frequent, like certain types of landslides, like certain types of floods or even avalanches." ASSOCIATED PRESS Marmolada Mountain, Italy - 5 July 2022 9.  Aerial of giant hole where the avalanche started STORYLINE: Rescuers found body parts and equipment as they searched Tuesday for hikers missing following a powerful avalanche that killed at least seven people and was blamed in large part on rising temperatures that are melting glaciers. Officials initially feared 13 hikers were still missing after a huge chunk of the Marmolada glacier cleaved off Sunday in northern Italy. But the province of Trento on Tuesday reduced the number of people unaccounted-for to five, all of them Italian, after eight others checked in with authorities. Rain had hampered the search Monday, but sunny weather on Tuesday allowed helicopters to bring more rescue teams and their drones up to the site on the glacier, east of Bolzano in the Dolomite mountains, even as hopes dimmed of finding anyone alive. Alex Barattin of the Alpine Rescue Service, said the chances of finding someone alive was "very remote" because of the magnitude of the avalanche. Associated Press photos, taken during a helicopter survey of the site, showed a gaping hole in the glacier as if the blue-gray ice had been carved out by a giant ice cream scooper. The terrain was still so unstable that rescue crews stayed off to the side and were using drones to try to find any remains or signs of life while helicopters searched overhead, some using equipment to detect cellular pings. Maurizio Dellantonio, national president of the Alpine Rescue Service, said teams had found body parts, hiking equipment and clothing on the surface of the debris, evidence of the avalanche's powerful impact on the hikers. =========================================================== Subscribe for more Breaking News: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Website: https://apnews.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP Facebook: https://facebook.com/APNews Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/03f2c86e91e746019a97208c1dd87ab3