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Courmayeur. Three Skiers Killed in an Avalanche in Mont-Blanc: Hugo, Quentin and Alexis Lived in the Pays De Savoie

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The tragedy broke out on Sunday 15 February over Courmayeur. An avalanche in the Vesses Canal, a popular off-piste route from Val Veny, claimed the lives of three French skiers living in the Pays de Savoie. The last survivor, hospitalized in Turin after having been buried almost forty minutes, died Monday morning.

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The tragedy broke out on Sunday 15 February over Courmayeur. An avalanche in the Vesses Canal, a popular off-piste route from Val Veny, claimed the lives of three French skiers living in the Pays de Savoie. The last survivor, hospitalized in Turin after having been buried almost forty minutes, died Monday morning.

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Three French skiers, some 30 years old, died by an avalanche on Sunday 15 February in Courmayeur, in the Italian Alps. They were operating in off-piste areas and were all equipped with an avalanche victim search machine.

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The victims are three French Chamonix, they were between 29 and 35 years old: they were buried by more than one and a half meters of snow

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Three French skiers have died after being swept away by an avalanche in the Italian Alps. The accident took place on Sunday, and a hospital in Turin announced the death of a third man on Monday, the DPA news agency reported.

Over the weekend in the Italian Alps, three French skiers died as a result of an avalanche; elsewhere, the search for a person is also underway.

COURMAYEUR – The death toll has risen further following yesterday's avalanche in the Vesses couloir above Courmayeur, in the Aosta Valley, which swept away three freeriders. Two of them died yesterday; unfortunately, the third man who was pulled out also died. The man, a 35-year-old French freerider from Chamonix, died this morning at the Giovanni Bosco Hospital in Turin despite doctors' efforts to save his life. The 35-year-old was with two oth…

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La Repubblica broke the news in Turin, Italy on Monday, February 16, 2026.
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