On Monday, two teenagers aged 12 and 17 were victims of an avalanche while they were skiing off-piste with their father in Val d'Isère, according to information from the Savoyard resort.
Two teenagers aged 12 and 17 who were skiing off-piste with their father in Val d'Isère were swept away and injured on Monday by an avalanche, we learned from the Savoyard resort.
The snow slide started in the Bellevarde sector, “one was buried, the other was not”and they ended their race by hitting trees, Cédric Bonnevie, director of the slopes service, told AFP.
The teenagers were equipped with avalanche detectors and the father quickly pulled out the buried one. The station's trackers then took charge of the two young people, one injured in the head and the other in the leg, but without “vital emergency”he clarified.
Difficult conditions
Conditions were difficult with lots of snow and wind and a “high risk” (4 out of 5) of avalanches in Haute-Tarentaise and in most other massifs of the Northern Alps following a snowy episode “outstanding”according to Météo France.
Savoie, Haute-Savoie, and Isère are on orange alert for avalanches, and snow-ice with Ain, since Sunday until Tuesday 10:00 a.m., according to the Météo-France bulletin at 4 p.m.
Throughout the Northern Alps, the snow cover is very unstable, and off-piste skiing or snowshoeing is strongly discouraged. “Tomorrow, the weather will be fine. However, the risk (of avalanche) will not be less”warned Mr. Bonnevie.
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