Billionaire Richard Branson came within ‘seconds’ of death on Alps charity climb with son

It sounded almost like heavy rain.

Rocks had started to tumble down Mont Blanc, the tallest mountain in the Alps, and billionaire mogul Sir Richard Branson and his son, Sam, sought shelter behind a boulder, he wrote on his blog.

Branson said a small rock skipped across his son’s head, “loudly clipping” his helmet on the way down.

“A side of a cliff had broken away from the mountain further up and seconds later huge boulders the size of small cars were bouncing towards us,” he wrote.

“Rocks rained down on us from every angle. I am not exaggerating when I say four of our team were seconds away from certain death.”

But the 68-year-old father and son emerged uninjured.