Rescue efforts to find eight climbers missing in an avalanche in the French Alps, in the country's southeast, have been suspended due to worsening conditions, local media said.

Search for the eight, five Austrians and three Swiss, was forced to be halted for fear of another avalanche around place where the accident occurred near western Europe's highest peak Mont Blanc, the reports said.

Eight other climbers, four Frenchmen and four Italians, have been saved or escaped the calamity with injuries, according to the reports.

Rescue teams in a chopper scan the Alpine snow of France's highest peak the Mont Blanc in the French Alps' following an avalanche late on August 23, that buried three Swiss and five Austrian climbers. Rescuers on Sunday suspended their hunt for eight climbers missing in the avalanche, as France's interior minister warned there is "no longer any chance of finding someone alive.