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Avalanches claim lives both sides of the Atlantic
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The last week has been a grim one for avalanches. On Sunday, three people were killed in one incident in Washington State when some members of a group of highly experienced skiers, all carrying safety equipment, were caught by an avalanche that travelled 1km. Among the dead is Jim Jack, the Freeskiing World Tour head judge and a former competitor. One survivor in the group of 13 said she was saved by activating her airbag and another held onto a tree ...In Seattle, a snowboarder died when he was taken over a cliff by an avalanche.

In Navistal, near Wipptal in the Austrian Tirol, today (Tuesday), a 68-year-old local was carried 250m after being caught in a slide 50m from the summit he was skinning up. An unrelated observer saw the accident from another mountain and called mountain rescue, but the man was already dead by the time he was found.

In East Tirol today, a German ski tourer was luckier: the only member of a nine-strong group to be fully buried by an avalanche that struck while they were having a picnic, he was dug out from under 1.5m of snow, having managed to keep an air-pocket around his face. Three other members of the group were partially buried. In both cases, the avalanche risk level was three out of five.

Last week, a Swede was killed by an avalanche in Ischgl on the piste, while in nearby Lech, an avalanche has left Prince Johan Friso of the Netherlands in a critical condition. In Switzerland last Friday an Estonian skier died in Davos, on the Parsenn mountain, after being buried in an avalanche off-piste. In France, there are reports of various recent rescues.

The avalanche danger level across much the Alps remains at three (considerable) or two (moderate).

Report in the Tiroler Tageszeitung on today's Austrian incidents (German only)

Planet Ski report on the US tragedy in Washington State

Planet Ski report on the avalanche in Ischgl

Piste Hors report on avalanche activity in France

Skier dies in Graubunden, report in Tagesanzeiger (German only)
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