Two people were killed in avalanches in the Austrian Alps on Saturday, bringing to seven the number of people killed in the country since Friday after heavy snowfall.
An avalanche crashed into a ski slope on Austria's Stubai Glacier in the Tyrol region on Thursday leaving several people buried in snow. Some of the injured had to be airlifted to hospital.
Austria is an excellent destination for skiing, snowboarding and other winter sports, but the risk of deadly avalanches is real. Here's what you need to know to stay safe in the Alps.
Austrian police said Sunday that five people had been killed in avalanches in the west of the country, after three deaths were reported Saturday despite pleas for caution on ski slopes.
A series of avalanches in Austria has left three people dead since Friday, as the ski season gets into full swing, with authorities warning of the risks posed by a particularly unstable snow cover.
Nine people died in three days of more than 100 avalanches rolling across Austria as warmer temperatures followed heavy snowfall, creating particularly dangerous conditions, authorities said on Sunday.
The bodies of three celebrated professional mountaineers - two Austrians and an American - were found Sunday after they went missing during an avalanche on a western Canadian summit, the national parks agency said.
Heavy snowfall in southern Germany and the deaths of skiers prompted authorities Sunday to raise the avalanche alert warning in the Bavarian Alps to the second-highest level.
The system by which Switzerland and Austria predicts and manages avalanche danger has been submitted to Unesco for potential inclusion on its ‘intangible heritage’ list.
The mountain guide who was leading a group of Swiss ski tourers hit by an avalanche in the Austrian Tyrol last week is being investigated for homicide through negligence.
The four people who died in a massive avalanche in the Tyrol region of Austria on Wednesday were from Switzerland, Swiss and Austrian media have reported.
A weather warning has been issued for drivers on Austria’s roads, who should watch out for black ice after snowfall and freezing rain caused hazardous conditions on Tuesday morning.
A 19-year-old Austrian man owes his life to an avalanche search and rescue dog after he was buried under snow whilst skiing with friends in Westendorf in Tyrol.
Six climbers, including a teenager, were
killed in an Alpine avalanche on Saturday that struck the Monte Nevoso area, close
to Italy's border with Austria, rescuers said.
A 14-year-old boy was killed by an avalanche in Tyrol on Sunday afternoon. The teenager, a Russian citizen, was part of a ski tour group from Bavaria who were skiing off piste in the Hochzillertal area.
A 26-year-old Austrian man and a 34-year-old German man died when an avalanche swept them down a slope while they were skiing off-piste in the canton of Valais, police said on Sunday.
A hiker made a grisly discovery in the Kaunergrat mountain range in Tyrol on Wednesday - a lower leg dressed in a hiking boot and sock. It’s thought the body part may belong to a German skier who went missing in the region in December.
A group of Austrian skiers are returning home on Friday after being caught in a massive avalanche in the French Alps which claimed the lives of three of their tour group.
