{"id":14376,"date":"2026-02-20T18:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/14376\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T18:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:14:11","slug":"arlberg-avalanche-austrian-alps-horror-as-avalanche-kills-skiers-with-more-buried-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/14376\/","title":{"rendered":"Arlberg avalanche: Austrian Alps horror as avalanche kills skiers with more buried | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least two skiers have died, and even more are buried in snow after an avalanche at a popular skiing spot in the Austrian Alps. A rescue mission involving helicopters and mountain rescue teams is underway after the avalanche hit near St. Anton am Arlberg on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Off-piste terrain on the Rendl (Verwall) mountain quickly became buried, with sources saying five people are missing, according to <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.krone.at\/4053679\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kronen Zeitung<\/a>. Two people have died, while another was airlifted to hospital in Innsbruck, as rescuers attempted to resuscitate a fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Mountain rescue teams from St. Anton, Pettneu, Flirsch, and Landeck were mobilised to the scene, as well as police and other emergency crews.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Helmut Mall said there is &#8220;absolutely no&#8221; danger to the village or other nearby areas.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after a <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/2173246\/british-tourist-killed-avalanche-named-pictured\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">British tourist was killed in an avalanche<\/a> in the French Alps earlier this week. Piotr Ortonowski, 36, was pronounced dead following the incident, which occurred near the resort town of La Grave on February 17.<\/p>\n<p>The British-Polish dual national had been skiing alongside a group of four others when the avalanche struck.<\/p>\n<p>*** Ensure our latest news headlines always appear at the top of your Google Search by making us a Preferred Source.\u00a0<a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=express.co.uk&amp;hl=en_GB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Click here to activate<\/a>\u00a0or add us as Preferred Source in your Google search settings. ***<\/p>\n<p>They were identified as Stuart Leslie and Shaun Overy, whilst a third victim was a French national.\u00a0Rescue services found the bodies of the two UK nationals in a stream 400 metres down the\u00a0Manchet valley.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Leslie was a sales and marketing director for Barratt Redrow construction company, while Mr Overy ran a plumbing business in Wimbledon, southwest London.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Leslie is believed to have been an experienced skier and a fan of off-piste tracks.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least two skiers have died, and even more are buried in snow after an avalanche at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[16],"tags":[2530,29,50,1342,10406,902,10408,10407],"class_list":["post-14376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alps","tag-accident","tag-alpine","tag-alps","tag-austria","tag-austrian-alps","tag-avalanche","tag-skiing-accident","tag-st-anton-am-arlberg"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14376","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=14376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}