{"id":11414,"date":"2026-01-11T20:16:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T20:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=11414"},"modified":"2026-01-11T20:16:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T20:16:01","slug":"avalanche-kills-british-skier-in-la-plagne-in-the-french-alps-avalanches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=11414","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche kills British skier in La Plagne in the French Alps | Avalanches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A British skier has been killed by an avalanche in the French Alps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The man, believed to be in his 50s, was found under 2.5 metres of snow after a 50-minute search, a statement from the La Plagne resort in south-eastern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/france\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">France<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">He was skiing off-piste when the avalanche took place, the resort added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A team of more than 50 people, including medics, ski school instructors and dogs were involved in the rescue mission on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"64a931aa-a845-45ac-8ce0-64e1e2c852f9\" data-spacefinder-role=\"richLink\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-47fhrn\"><gu-island name=\"RichLinkComponent\" priority=\"feature\" deferuntil=\"idle\" props=\"{&quot;richLinkIndex&quot;:4,&quot;element&quot;:{&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement&quot;,&quot;prefix&quot;:&quot;Related: &quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Five German climbers die in Italian Alps after being swept away by avalanche&quot;,&quot;elementId&quot;:&quot;64a931aa-a845-45ac-8ce0-64e1e2c852f9&quot;,&quot;role&quot;:&quot;richLink&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/02\/five-german-mountaineers-die-in-northern-italy-after-being-hit-by-avalanche&quot;},&quot;ajaxUrl&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/api.nextgen.guardianapps.co.uk&quot;,&quot;format&quot;:{&quot;design&quot;:0,&quot;display&quot;:0,&quot;theme&quot;:0},&quot;isInStarRatingVariant&quot;:false}\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The man was skiing alongside a group when the incident occurred, but the resort said he was not equipped with an avalanche transceiver or accompanied by a professional instructor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">La Plagne said its thoughts were with the man\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Avalanche #kills #British #skier #Plagne #French #Alps #Avalanches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British skier has been kille&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}