1.   Most continental high mountain areas are well served by networks of mountain huts and refuges, usually offering dormitory accommodation.

2.   Accommodations are in bed and breakfasts, historic inns and, during the Southern Alps trek, in mountain huts with hot showers and flush toilets.

3.   Lodging is in small hotels, inns and mountain huts.

4.   Among those feared dead were two Nepalese owners of the mountain huts housing the trekkers, Miyahara said.

5.   A helicopter carrying supplies for a mountain hut crashed Tuesday above Grindelwald in the Alps, killing three of four people on board, police said.