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A British skier misplaced his life yesterday after a violent collision with a tree on the French ski resort of Avoriaz in Morzine.
The mountain rescue staff was alerted to the accident at 3pm yesterday native time amid reviews {that a} skier had left the piste and hit a tree at excessive velocity after swerving to keep away from a gaggle of fellow skiers.
The as but unidentified sufferer, believed to be 68 years of age, was discovered unresponsive by rescuers and regardless of their finest efforts couldn’t be resuscitated.
He was pronounced lifeless on the scene.
Avoriaz is one in every of 13 ski resorts positioned throughout the Portes du Soleil area, a high snowboarding vacation spot for alpine fanatics the world over that covers elements of the French and Swiss Alps.
Cityscape of the city of Avoriaz within the Portes du Soleil in France
Avoriaz is one in every of 13 ski resorts positioned throughout the Portes du Soleil area, a high snowboarding vacation spot for alpine fanatics the world over that covers elements of the French and Swiss Alps.
It comes one month after one other British skier plummeted to his demise amid an ill-fated try to descend the notoriously troublesome ‘Swiss Wall’ route within the Portes du Soleil space, near Avoriaz
It comes one month after one other British skier plummeted to his demise amid an ill-fated try to descend the notoriously troublesome ‘Swiss Wall’ route within the Portes du Soleil space, near Avoriaz.
The route was closed on the time of the deadly fall as a result of icy circumstances, however the skier was noticed heading in direction of the closed piste together with two different alpinists.
The Swiss Wall, which begins on the French-Swiss border and descends into Switzerland, is known for being one of many steepest and most troublesome downhill runs on this planet with a gradient of as much as 76% in some locations.
The 47-year-old skier, who misplaced management and tumbled down the facet of the mountain, was pronounced lifeless on the scene on February 7.
Every week prior, a 30-year-old British skier died on the Serre Chevalier resort within the La Salle-les-Alpes sector after struggling a ‘heavy fall’.
First assist responders within the space on the time had been the primary to supply look after the skier earlier than the French Nationwide Police (CRS) arrived and evacuated them.
France’s BFMTV stated the skier was ‘in a state of mind demise’ once they had been transported to the Grenoble College Hospital, the place he was pronounced lifeless.
A British skier died after a ‘heavy fall’ at a French in Hautes Alpes, France, in January
The accident involving the 30-year-old occurred on the Serre Chevalier resort within the La Salle-les-Alpes sector, reviews stated, and concerned an Englishman who suffered a ‘heavy fall’. Pictured: A snowboarder is seen on the Serre-Chevalier resort (file picture)
‘The sufferer was found by a patroller who instantly raised the alarm,’ Patrick Arnaud – the boss of the ski resort – stated, in keeping with Le Dauphine.
‘Joined by a number of different trackers, they supplied first assist. All of the ski space groups are affected by this tragedy and all our ideas are with the household,’ he added.
Marion Lozac’hmeur, the general public prosecutor of the Hautes-Alpes division of Hole, stated an investigation had been opened into the incident.
‘A judicial investigation has been opened to find out the circumstances of the accident. It’s entrusted to the CRS Alpes,’ she stated.
Additionally on January 29, round 40 miles away, a 63-year-old British man collapsed and died on the ski resort of La Plagne, Savoie, an alpine area within the southeast of France.
Officers stated that the person had a coronary heart assault and that he couldn’t be resuscitated by the mountain rescue staff.
‘Emergency employees had been on the scene extraordinarily shortly, however the man couldn’t be revived. He was declared lifeless by the Modane mountain assist station,’ a police spokesperson stated.
