{"id":42826,"date":"2026-04-01T10:27:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/42826\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:27:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:27:03","slug":"british-tourist-dies-in-french-alps-after-horror-100m-fall-from-ledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/42826\/","title":{"rendered":"British tourist dies in French Alps after horror 100m fall from ledge"},"content":{"rendered":"

A British tourist has died in the French Alps after falling more than 100 metres from a rocky ledge in La Plagne.<\/p>\n

The 43-year-old, who has not been named, was snowboarding alone when he fell.<\/p>\n

His family said he had planned to return after lunch on March 28, but when he failed to do so, the alarm was raised.<\/p>\n

Rescue workers made an attempt to track the man, who was snowboarding off-piste, by examining CCTV images.<\/p>\n

But his body was eventually found and reported by a skier who was in an off-piste zone.<\/p>\n

He was pronounced dead at the scene by rescue workers, who airlifted his body by helicopter.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors have now started an investigation into his death.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for the Modane police mountain rescue unit told The Times: “The victim no doubt fell more than 100m from a rocky ledge in an off-piste zone.”<\/p>\n

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The snowboarder fell at least 100 metres in La Plagne ski resort in the French Alps<\/p>\n

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At least 104 snowboarders were injured in off-piste accidents, according to the National Mountain Safety Observation System<\/p>\n

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He was found after 50 minutes, buried under 2.5 metres of snow, with the mayor of La Plagne saying at the time the rescue attempt “took a lot of time”.<\/p>\n

Mayor Jean-Luc Boch said he “ended up in a sort of big hole and there was a lot of snow accumulated [over him] in that place. We took a lot of time to find him and to get him out”.<\/p>\n

Then in February, three skiers, including two Britons, died when they were caught in an avalanche while off-piste in Val d\u2019Isere<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to the National Mountain Safety Observation System, 30 skiers have been killed in avalanches in France since the start of the season.<\/p>\n

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Rescue helicopter similar to those used to find the 43-year-old victim<\/p>\n

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The system does not record crashes and falls responsible for ski deaths.<\/p>\n

Last season, 31 people died in ski accidents.<\/p>\n

A further 104 snowboarders were injured in off-piste accidents, and 113 were injured on authorised slopes.<\/p>\n

There were 68 recorded collisions between snowboarders and other people on the slopes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A British tourist has died in the French Alps after falling more than 100 metres from a rocky…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[50,1001,1202,1046],"class_list":{"0":"post-42826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-alps","8":"tag-alps","9":"tag-france","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42826","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=42826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}