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Avalanche deaths in Graubunden and Tirol
 Poster: A snowHead
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A teenager and a German couple have died after being buried in avalanches in the past week. A 14-year-old boy died yesterday in hospital, four days after being caught in a slab avalanche near Celerina in Switzerland's Engadine region ...His friend, aged 13, who was partially buried, raised the alarm after freeing himself, on Thursday 29 December. The pair had been hiking up to the Fuorcla Gluna saddle, near the top of a chairlift at Marguns, at about 2,900m, according to Swiss police and press reports. Mountain rescue found the 14-year-old under 60cm of snow about an hour after he was buried and he was taken to Chur hospital in a critical condition.
In Austria, on 28 December, a Bavarian couple aged 44 and 50 were buried as they were getting ready to take off for a tandem paragliding flight on the Joechelspitz in the Reutte district, north-west of the Arlberg region. A slab avalanche slid onto them, at an altitude of 1,800m, and the pair were found dead under 3.5m of snow.
On 26 December, a family in Verbier were caught off-piste in an avalanche on Mont Gele/Lac de Vaux and escaped with minor injuries.

Nouvelliste report, in French
Die Presse report from Tirol, in German
L'Impartial report, in French
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

A salutary reminder to keep one's wits about one at all times in the mountains and that "going off piste" is in no way the only situation with a risk of avalanches
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

Having just today returned from Chamonix where there is a tremendous amount of new snow I'm surprised but pleased there has not been many more accidents. Many of the lifts there will reopen today/tomorrow as the storms fade. Be careful out there everyone.
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