The press are reporting a ski touring group hit by an avalanche with one person perishing.

http://www.24heures.ch/suisse/faits-divers/Un-skieur-de-randonnee-meurt-dans-une-avalanche/story/25773146

The posted avalanche risk was 4 and this was a north aspect slope. I believe it’s rather steeper than the press photo suggests.

Buried under 2 meters of snow, that was not going to be good. Just to dig him out would have taken a lot of time.