{"id":5487,"date":"2026-02-14T00:59:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/5487\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T00:59:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:59:26","slug":"two-brits-among-three-killed-in-avalanche-at-french-alps-ski-resort-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/5487\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Brits among three killed in avalanche at French Alps ski resort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two British men are among three people who were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/avalanche-skiers-die-val-disere-france-b2920180.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:killed in an avalanche in the French Alps;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">killed in an avalanche in the French Alps<\/a> Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/avalanche\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:avalanche;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">avalanche<\/a> struck at around 11:30am (10.30am GMT) in the Val d\u2019Is\u00e8re ski resort in southeastern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/france\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:France;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">France<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A spokesperson from the slope management department at the resort confirmed that the third victim is a French national who was skiing alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/brits\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Brits;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Brits<\/a> were reportedly part of a group of five people accompanied by an instructor who were off-piste skiing, according to the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The cause of the avalanche wasn\u2019t immediately known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A red avalanche warning was issued Thursday across the Savoie region by Meteo-France, which is the national weather service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Val d\u2019Is\u00e8re ski resort\u2019s website said off-piste skiing is \u201cstrongly discouraged\u201d due to a \u201cvery high avalanche risk\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An FCDO Spokesperson said: \u201cWe are aware of an accident in which two British men have died in France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe are in contact with the local authorities and stand ready to offer consular assistance\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two British men are among three people who were killed in an avalanche in the French Alps Friday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[50,902],"class_list":{"0":"post-5487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-alps","8":"tag-alps","9":"tag-avalanche"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5487","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=5487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}