'Tourists in plane killed in Alps'
aosta January 25, 2019 17:00Above the Italian Alps, a tourist plane and a helicopter collided. As a result, according to Italian media, at least four people were killed and two injured.
Above the Italian Alps, a tourist plane and a helicopter collided. As a result, according to Italian media, at least four people were killed and two injured.
An avalanche in the Italian Alps has killed two skiers. Two other victims were transferred to the hospital with severe undercooling symptoms. A person is still missing. Two helicopters and search dogs were deployed during the rescue operation in the Pila ski area in the Aosta valley.
Not only in Zermatt are tourists trapped due to extreme snowfall and avalanche danger. Elsewhere in the mountain canton of Wallis, in the town of Saas-Fee, another 2,000 winter sports enthusiasts are stuck.
On the Italian flanks of Mont Blanc, the bodies were found of three mountaineers who have probably died in 1995. The dusty remains have been on the highest peak for more than two decades under glacier icecream.
A French skier Sunday in northern Italy killed when he and three companions were surprised by an avalanche. The survivors come from the United States, Britain and France. They are included with injuries in hospital.
Four Italian mountaineers on Thursday killed in an ascent in northern Italy Gressoney-Saint-Jean. A group of five people climbed a frozen waterfall when a piece broke off from the ice and fell down. A mountain climber which had solid ground under our feet, was wounded and was taken a hospital in Aosta.
Due to strong winds in the mountains on the Italian-Swiss border is Saturday jammed a gondola with 130 people. The colossus is suspended from a cable car in the Aosta valley in the popular Italian ski resort of Breuil-Cervina.