A major search and rescue operation is under way after an avalanche in the Ötztal Alps in western Austria. Three people have been killed, and a fourth has been taken to hospital. Austrian reports ...

The avalanche risk was at the second highest level in most of the Swiss Alps. Over the past 20 yearsExternal link, there has been an average of 100 reported avalanches a year where people were ...

World News // 9 months ago British mother, son killed by avalanche while skiing on Mont Blanc in French Alps A 54-year-old British mother and her 22-year-old son died in an avalanche Thursday ...

A family of skiers who froze to death after getting lost in brutal mountain conditions have been named following the tragedy in the Swiss Alps ... to sounding poles and avalanche locators ...

Video / NZ Herald Police have named the man who died after being buried by an avalanche in the Southern Alps. He was Brett Evans, 38, of Stavely, Ashburton. Police inquiries into his death on ...

A search and rescue team is responding to a report of an avalanche in the Southern Alps this afternoon. One person has died in an avalanche after becoming trapped during a heli-skiing trip in Mid ...

Five people have died in avalanches in the French Alps during the weekend. Authorities have not released the victims' identities. An avalanche unleashed by a group of skiers killed one person and ...

The bodies of five missing skiers have been found in the Swiss Alps, police have said ... heavy snow, high avalanche danger, and zero visibility". Mr Truffer said that the group may have been ...

The man who died after being buried by an avalanche in the Southern Alps was a heliskiing guide and is being remembered by his colleagues as a much-loved friend. The incident happened about midday ...

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