All news on the topic: Avalanche

Five skiers were found dead after sending a distress signal during a storm in the Swiss Alps. A sixth member of the group is still missing and may have fallen down a crevice

Isabella Bolton, 21, was skiing on Mt Yotei, near Hokkaido in northern Japan, when a slope collapsed burying her and two other visitors under snow

Renowned mountain guide David Vigouroux, 50, is among four people to have died during an avalanche in the Valley of Hell in central France at an altitude of 5,250ft

Corey Zalewski was skiing in Idaho with two university friends when an avalanche hit. Two survived the tragic incident that saw Zalewski's body recovered a day later

American traveller Anna Gutu, 32, and her guide, Mingmar Sherpa from Nepal, were reported missing. The pair were were later confirmed dead

Six people - including two mountain guides - have now been confirmed dead in an avalanche at Contamines-Montjoie in the Haute Savoie region of the French Alps

Alison Jane Dawson, 45, an endocrinologist from Ilkley in Yorkshire, was on a hiking trip with her husband and a tour guide on January 14 when an avalanche rocked the French Alps - and she suffocated beneath the snow, an inquest has found

A large avalanche struck the Maroon bowl area near Aspen, Colorado, US, with one of three skiers caught up in the incident killed a day after Joel Shute died in another avalanche in the same state

Carluccio Sartori was hit by an avalanche in the South Tyrol region in Italy. He survived being buried for 20 hours and when he was rescued, he could still talk despite having a body temperature of 24C

Chinese state media reported late on Friday that rescue workers had been digging by hand when they uncovered eight more bodies which bought the search to an end in Nyingchi, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region

The majority of the victims of the crushing avalanche were Tibetans heading back to their mountain homes ahead of the Lunar New Year celebrations in China, which are set to begin on Sunday

A British woman was killed in the Chamonix valley in Mont Blanc, French Alps, yesterday as skiers have been warned that the "avalanche hazard is going to increase dramatically"

A 58-year-old man has been killed and another is missing after they were struck by an avalanche in the Rocky Mountains on Saturday, authorities in Colorado have confirmed

Wyatt Coiteux, from La Center, Washington state, US, was out on the slopes with his brother when he was swept away by a wall of snow. Search and rescue teams took an hour to find him and couldn't save him