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Avalanches claim three lives in French Alps
- 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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Avalanche kills British skier in the French Alps
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French Alps avalanches claim five lives in two days
Two avalanches killed two skiers in the French Alps on Sunday, resort officials said, following the deaths of three off-piste skiers a day earlier in similar incidents. In one incident, a British skier aged about 50 was buried while skiing off-trail, according to a statement released by La Plagne ski resort in southeastern France. More than 50 rescuers were deployed, finding the man buried under 2.5 metres (eight feet) of snow after nearly an ho…
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