{"id":688,"date":"2026-02-11T14:10:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/688\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T14:10:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:10:37","slug":"avalanches-kill-11-people-in-seven-days-across-italys-alps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/688\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanches kill 11 people in seven days across Italy&#8217;s Alps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Italy&#8217;s Alpine rescue service on Monday urged &#8220;maximum caution&#8221; after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-872433\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">avalanches<\/a> claimed 11 lives in seven days, as exceptionally unstable snow conditions threaten large parts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/alps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Alps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The latest victim was a 70-year-old hiker, who was found dead overnight in the Veneto region of the country, which is hosting the Milano Cortina <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-885986\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Winter Olympics<\/a> in the Alps from February 6-22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Italy&#8217;s rescue service said the risk of avalanches was present across most of the Alpine range from west to east.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">With fresh snow accumulating on older and unstable layers, even the movement of a single skier can trigger an avalanche, the rescue service said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">These conditions make it difficult even for expert off-piste skiers to identify safe routes, it warned.<\/p>\n<p>The rescuers urged anyone heading into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/travel\/article-883213\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">snowy terrain<\/a> to study avalanche bulletins carefully, plan their routes conservatively and ensure they carry standard rescue equipment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">It also advised considering postponing outings until the snowpack had stabilized naturally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italy&#8217;s Alpine rescue service on Monday urged &#8220;maximum caution&#8221; after avalanches claimed 11 lives in seven days, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[937,50,902,935,309,934,936,876],"class_list":{"0":"post-688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-alps","8":"tag-2026-winter-olympics","9":"tag-alps","10":"tag-avalanche","11":"tag-injury","12":"tag-italy","13":"tag-snow","14":"tag-spotlight","15":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","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=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}