A 68 year old ski instructor based in Aussois in the Maurienne area has been killed by an avalanche on Saturday while collecting data for the electricity supply network: ERDF.

A school group of 15 pupils and their teacher accompanied by a guide and assistant guide have been avalanched in the Vercors around midday today.

After a difficult search operation lasting all night the bodies of the six missing ski tourers have been found under an avalanche in the Ceillac area of the Hautes-Alpes.

A group of seven skiers have been involved in an avalanche incident near the Envers des Aiguilles sectors of the Vallée Blanche in the Mont-Blanc mountain range.

A snowshoer was killed yesterday by an avalanche in the Montcalm mountain range in the Pyrenees.

Two skiers have been killed by avalanches in the French Alps. The first incident was on the 27th in Meribel.

An off piste skier has been killed late this morning in the ski resort of Auron in the Alpes Maritimes close to Nice. The avalanche occurred at 2400 meters altitude and ran 400 meters.

The body of the second ski tourer has been found this morning on the glacier d’Armancette below the Dômes de Miage on the Mont-Blanc range.

The ski tourer caught by an avalanche on Monday early afternoon has succumbed to his injuries in hospital in Grenoble today.

100 walkers are missing and at least 29 dead following a snowstorm in the center of Nepal in the Himalayan mountain range.