A series of avalanches have left 4 off piste skiers dead and another seriously injured despite his airbag.

24 year old Italian skimo racer, Margherita Beria D'Argentina, has been killed with two other skiers on the Italian side of Mont Chaberton.

They'd played it by the book. This French family holidaying in Tignes had hired Laurent Ruiz, one of the most experienced snowboard instructors in the resort.

A series of avalanches in the French Alps have left 3 people dead. On Saturday a ski instructor was killed close to the resort of Montgenèvre.

A ski tourer has been killed by an avalanche near the summit of the Ombilic between the Gondran and Infernet forts close to Briançon in the Hautes-Alpes on Saturday afternoon.

A Russian skier has been killed by an avalanche this afternoon at Valfréjus in the Maurienne area in the Northern French Alps.

A 46 Canadian ski tourer was killed by an avalanche near the ski resort of Ste Foy Taretaise in the Savoie department of the French Alps on Friday (20/1).

Two climbers have been killed by an avalanche in the North-East couloir of the Pic du Midi de Bigorre around 8h00 today.

A 24 year old solo ski tourer has been killed by an avalanche in the Brévent range near the aiguillette des Houches. The alarm was given when he failed to turn up for a meeting in the early afternoon.

An avalanche near Ceillac in the Hautes Alpes yesterday has left one dead and two injured.