Illustration avalanche. (Photo by Nicolas TUCAT / AFP)
On Wednesday December 25, a 13-year-old boy lost his life in an avalanche in the Les Arcs area.
A 13-year-old teenager died in an avalanche on Wednesday while skiing in the Les Arcs area, the Chambéry prefecture told AFP, confirming information from France Bleu Pays-de-Savoie.
Several deaths in recent days
The boy was walking off-piste when he was caught in the avalanche, added the prefecture. The teenager was skiing with six other people in the Aiguille Rouge sector in Arc 2000 and was not equipped with an avalanche victim detector (DVA), France Bleu Pays-de-Savoie said, citing emergency services in mountain.
The Albertville public prosecutor's office opened an investigation and entrusted the investigations to the PGHM of Bourg-Saint-Maurice. The conditions were difficult with many sensitive slabs and a “marked risk” (3 out of 5) of avalanche in Haute-Tarentaise and in most of the other massifs of the Alpes-du-Nord, after a “remarkable” snow episode on Sunday, according to Météo France.
Several people have already been swept away in avalanches in the Alps since the start of the week. On Monday, Swiss snowboarder Sophie Hediger, who has two World Cup podiums and had participated in the 2022 Olympics, died in an avalanche while she was going off-piste with her companion in Arosa, in the Swiss Alps.
The same day, two teenagers aged 12 and 17 who were skiing off-piste with their father in Val d'Isère were also swept away and injured by an avalanche.
