{"id":17154,"date":"2026-02-24T10:05:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/17154\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T10:05:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:05:21","slug":"third-briton-dies-in-french-alps-avalanches-in-one-week-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/17154\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Briton dies in French Alps avalanches in one week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BBC\"<\/a>Wed, February 18, 2026 at 5:01 AM UTC\"A<\/p>\n

A banner with the warning message, “Risk of Avalanche – Proceed at your own risk and peril” stretches across a ski trail. <\/p>\n

A British national was among at least three people killed in two avalanches in the French Alps on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The man in his 30s and another Polish citizen were part of a group of five people who were skiing off-piste near the resort town of La Grave when the avalanche struck.<\/p>\n

Several hikers were also caught up in a second avalanche in the neighbouring Valloire area where one person was killed and two others were left in critical condition, according to authorities.<\/p>\n

The latest incidents bring the death toll to 28 for this winter season at the popular skiing destination, and comes after two other Britons and a French national<\/a> died on Friday.<\/p>\n

Two other skiers who where part of the group in La Grave, a German and an Australian, escaped without injury.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the French weather service marked the avalanche risk in the La Greve area as “high” or four on a five-point scale due to fresh snow and wind.<\/p>\n

At the Valloire resort, the risk was categorised at the maximum of five.<\/p>\n

Local authorities have launched investigations to determine the cause of death in both avalanches.<\/p>\n

Following the deaths of the two British nationals on Friday, a spokesperson for the Foreign Office told the BBC they were “in contact with the local authorities and stand ready to offer consular assistance”.<\/p>\n

There have been a number of fatal avalanches in the French Alps since the start of the year, including six deaths in one weekend in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wed, February 18, 2026 at 5:01 AM UTC A banner with the warning message, “Risk of Avalanche –…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[50,2557,569,11489,9312],"class_list":{"0":"post-17154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-alps","8":"tag-alps","9":"tag-avalanches","10":"tag-french-alps","11":"tag-french-national","12":"tag-local-authorities"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17154","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=17154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}