{"id":12143,"date":"2026-02-18T21:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/12143\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T21:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:24:17","slug":"moment-avalanche-rushes-down-alps-mountain-as-skiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/12143\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment avalanche rushes down Alps mountain as skiers\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eyewitness footage captures the moment an avalanche swept through a ski resort in the Italian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/alps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday (15 February), a mass of snow and ice tumbled down a mountain in Val Veny, part of the Courmayeur ski resort in north-west Italy, with onlookers watching in shock as the cloud of snow engulfed them.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have confirmed that two skiers have died whilst a third remains in critical condition after being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/climate-change\/how-to-survive-an-avalanche-lake-tahoe-b2922591.html\" title=\"Avalanches are becoming more frequent. Here\u2019s how to survive one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">hit by the avalanche.<\/a> All three, whose nationalities have yet to be released, were skiing off piste.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after two British skiers died after being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tv\/news\/avalanche-russia-ski-resort-europe-highest-mountain-video-b2902113.html\" title=\"Huge avalanche ploughs through ski resort on Europe\u2019s highest mountain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">crushed by a powerful avalanche<\/a> in the Val d\u2019Isere ski resort in France on Friday (13 February), whilst a third British national died after an avalanche struck in La Grave on Tuesday (17 February).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eyewitness footage captures the moment an avalanche swept through a ski resort in the Italian Alps. On Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[50,1042,4895,4898,4893,1202,4896,4894,4733,4897,1046],"class_list":{"0":"post-12143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-alps","8":"tag-alps","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-daily-news","11":"tag-global-news","12":"tag-inkl","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-news-app","15":"tag-news-headlines","16":"tag-news-today","17":"tag-today-news","18":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}