{"id":509504,"date":"2026-01-11T23:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T23:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/509504\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T23:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T23:02:15","slug":"avalanche-kills-british-skier-in-la-plagne-in-the-french-alps-avalanches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/509504\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche kills British skier in La Plagne in the French Alps | Avalanches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A British skier has been killed by an avalanche in the French Alps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The man, believed to be in his 50s, was found under 2.5 metres of snow after a 50-minute search, a statement from the La Plagne resort in south-eastern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/france\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">France<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">He was skiing off-piste when the avalanche took place, the resort added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A team of more than 50 people, including medics, ski school instructors and dogs were involved in the rescue mission on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The man was skiing alongside a group when the incident occurred, but the resort said he was not equipped with an avalanche transceiver or accompanied by a professional instructor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">La Plagne said its thoughts were with the man\u2019s family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A British skier has been killed by an avalanche in the French Alps. The man, believed to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":509505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-509504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115878963122750978","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}