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Avalanches claim three lives in French Alps
High avalanche risk warnings coincided with off-piste skiing, leaving three skiers dead and at least one seriously injured across three French Alps resorts, officials said.
- On Saturday, two separate avalanches killed three off-piste skiers in the French Alps across multiple Alpine resorts.
- French forecasters had warned of a level four out of five avalanche risk, and at Val-d'Isere two skiers were not equipped with avalanche transceivers.
- At Val-d'Isere, two French off-piste skiers were buried under 2.5 metres of snow, and rescuers probed a 10 by 15 metre search area but could not revive them.
- The Areches-Beaufort incident produced both a fatality and a serious injury as one skier who could not be revived and one skier hospitalised with serious head injuries.
- In La Plagne a man thought to be in his 50s was discovered after 50 minutes under 2.5m of snow; rescue teams called at 1.57pm on Sunday included around 52 people, medics and a helicopter-deployed piste dog.
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Avalanches in French Alps kill 6 skiers over the weekend
Three separate avalanches killed three off-piste skiers in the French Alps on Sunday, resort officials said, a day after three skiers died in similar incidents, bringing the weekend death toll to six. The deaths came despite alerts from the weather service of a high risk of avalanches and warnings against off-piste skiing. In one incident on Sunday, a British man in his 50s was buried while skiing off-piste, according to a statement released by …
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Avalanche kills British skier in the French Alps
A team of around 52 people, including medics, ski school instructors and a helicopter-deployed piste dog, were called in
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