This is the terrifying moment two avalanches hit the slopes of a popular ski resort in France at the same time. https://vimeo.com/811638148 The snowslips were caught on camera as they crashed down the mountainside in Tignes, in the Alps, on 15th March. The images were filmed by Swedish freestyle skier…
A superfit middle-aged mountaineer survived more than 20 hours buried overnight by an avalanche when temperatures plunged to minus 15. Photo shows Carluccio Sartori, undated. The 54-year-old ski mountaineer from Rovigo, Italy, was found alive in Val Badia on Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. (@carlucciosartori/Newsflash) Police and rescuers had given up…
Two mountaineers engulfed by an avalanche 11,000 feet up a mountain peak, which swept them into a crevasse and buried them under the snow at the bottom, have been declared dead by rescue workers. Photo shows the mountaineer Iker Bilbao, undated. He has been missing since Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023,…
Soldiers on war games in the Austrian alps have been seriously injured after they were flattened by an avalanche as they dug snow caves. Image shows the popular ski resort Stubai Glacier, in the municipality of Neustift im Stubaital, in Tyrol, Austria, undated photo. Five Bundeswehr soldiers were seriously injured…
A psychologist from Italy lost his life when he and a friend were caught in an avalanche near Mont Blanc. The victim, identified as 52-year-old Marco Neppi Modona, died after he was buried by snow at an altitude of 2,500 metres (8,202 feet). He was reportedly climbing with a friend…
