{"id":292102,"date":"2026-01-19T10:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T10:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/292102\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T10:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T10:51:10","slug":"eight-skiers-killed-in-three-avalanches-in-austria-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/292102\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight skiers killed in three avalanches in Austria \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Eight skiers have been killed in three avalanches across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/austria\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/austria\/\">Austria<\/a>, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A female skier was buried by an avalanche in the Bad Hofgastein area in western Austria at an altitude of about 7,200 feet, at about 12.30pm on Saturday, according to the Pongau mountain rescue service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">About 90 minutes later, an avalanche in nearby Gastein Valley, south of the city of Salzburg, swept away seven people. Four were killed, two seriously injured, and one escaped unharmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In the town of Pusterwald in central Austria, three Czech skiers were killed in an avalanche shortly before 4.30pm, police said. Four of their companions were evacuated to safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThis tragedy painfully demonstrates how serious the current avalanche situation is,\u201d said Gerhard Kremser, district head of the Pongau mountain rescue service, noting the \u201cclear and repeated warnings\u201d about avalanche risk. \u2013 AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eight skiers have been killed in three avalanches across Austria, authorities said. A female skier was buried by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[6929,9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-292102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-austria","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-world","22":"tag-world-news","23":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115921386419894817","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}