A solider has been seriously injured by an avalanche in Tignes during a training session. The man was with a group of 8 climbing on skis to the summit of the Grande Sassière when he slid, triggering a slide which carried him several hundred meters. The man was buried under 1 meter of snow. Discovered in a state of cardio-pulmonary arrest he received emergency medical care at the scene before being heliported to hospital in Grenoble.

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Sadly the soldier has not survived. There have been eight fatalities so far this season in four incidents. 3 in the Savoie, 1 in the Isere.