{"id":21601,"date":"2026-02-13T21:29:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T21:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=21601"},"modified":"2026-02-13T21:29:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T21:29:36","slug":"two-britons-among-three-dead-after-avalanche-in-french-alps-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=21601","title":{"rendered":"Two Britons among three dead after avalanche in French Alps | France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Two Britons are among three skiers to have been killed in an avalanche in the French Alps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The pair were part of a group of five people, accompanied by an instructor, off-piste skiing in Val d\u2019Is\u00e8re, in south-east <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/france\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">France<\/a>. A French national, who was skiing alone, was also killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Albertville prosecutor Beno\u00eet Bachelet said the ski instructor, who avoided injury, tested negative after taking blood and drug tests. He added that another British person had sustained minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A manslaughter investigation was launched by the Albertville public prosecutor\u2019s office and will be carried out by CRS Alpes mountain rescue police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">France\u2019s national weather service had issued a red alert for avalanche risk for the area on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In the Italian Alps, avalanches recently claimed the lives of 11 people in the space of seven days as a result of exceptionally unstable snow conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Those killed included a 70-year-old hiker, who was found dead last Sunday in the Veneto region of the country, which is hosting the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Italy\u2019s rescue service said the risk of avalanches was present across most of the Alpine range from west to east.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">With fresh snow accumulating on older and unstable layers, even the movement of a single skier can trigger an avalanche, the rescue service said in a statement to Reuters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Britons #among #dead #avalanche #French #Alps #France<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Britons are among three sk&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21602,"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\/21601"}],"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=21601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}