News · 12 January 2026
British skier dies in French Alps avalanche
A British man in his 50s was killed in an avalanche while skiing off-piste at La Plagne resort in the French Alps on Sunday afternoon. Rescue teams found him buried under 2.5 meters of snow after searching for nearly an hour following an avalanche alert at 1:57pm. The victim was skiing with a group but was not equipped with an avalanche transceiver and was not accompanied by a professional instructor. His death was part of a deadly weekend across the French Alps where six skiers died in multiple avalanche incidents.
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