{"id":663190,"date":"2025-12-30T20:22:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/663190\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T20:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:22:13","slug":"three-ski-mountaineers-die-in-avalanche-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/663190\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Ski Mountaineers Die in Avalanche in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-date\"> 30th December 2025<\/p>\n<p>It is a grim end to 2025 as another avalanche claims the lives of skiers and hikers. It follows two deaths in France, four in Greece and a spate of other incidents. <strong>NEW<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is a grim end to 2025 as another avalanche claims the lives of skiers and hikers. It follows two deaths in France, four in Greece and a spate of other incidents.<\/p>\n<p>The latest avalanche happened in the resort of Panticosa in the Spanish Pyrenees.<\/p>\n<p>A woman in the same group is being treated for hypothermia.<\/p>\n<p>It is reported that a large ice sheet broke off at about 2,200m and triggered the slide.<\/p>\n<p>The search began after a woman alerted authorities at around 1pm after seeing the avalanche and noticing people skiing, said the Spanish Civil Guard.<\/p>\n<p>Two other people in the group escaped relatively unscathed following the incident on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The three deceased were expert mountaineers, well-known in the area and with knowledge of meteorology, and the authorities have attributed what happened to \u2018bad luck\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate incident in Spain another woman was injured after being hit by an avalanche while ski mountaineering in Huesca.<\/p>\n<p>Two other mountaineers were unharmed.<\/p>\n<p>It is the latest incident in Europe in recent days:<\/p>\n<p>In the USA a ski patroller has died in Mammoth Mountain after carrying out avalanche mitigation work:<\/p>\n<p>In Sunshine Village in Canada a woman died in rare circumstances after falling into deep powder.<\/p>\n<p>PlanetSKI reports from the resort:<\/p>\n<p>The authorities are urging all skiers &amp; snowboarders to exercise caution in the mountains and to obey all local rules.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62762\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62762\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-30-at-11.34.37-800x531.jpeg\" alt=\"Avalanche accident in Spain. 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Image c\/o: Guardia Civil.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-53479\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/planetski-logo-300x300-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>PlanetSKI: Number 1 for digital ski news<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your digital platform for ski news, resort information, travel, equipment rental, sport, money saving deals and everything connected with snowsports \u2013 web site, social media &amp; more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"30th December 2025 It is a grim end to 2025 as another avalanche claims the lives of skiers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-663190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115810385534273959","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}