Rescue workers in the Swiss Alps have unsuccessfully sought all possible places where CEO Karl-Erivan Haub of the German Tengelmann group could lie. They now hope that the German billionaire will be found by someone by chance. Only when the snow has melted can a targeted search be carried out again, reports the police of the Valais canton.
The peace in the Alps has returned for a while. After the heavy snowfall of last week, there will be hardly any precipitation in the next two days and temperatures will rise. However, the avalanche danger remains considerable.
Thousands of winter sports enthusiasts have been stranded for the second time this year in the Swiss ski resort of Zermatt. Surrounding roads and the railway are closed due to avalanche danger. People can not leave the resort.
The Swiss town of Zermatt is no longer isolated from the outside world. The Swiss broadcaster SRF reported Wednesday evening that the train traffic between the municipality and nearby Täsch has started again. There was safe driving over the approximately 5 kilometers long track between the places.
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.
The avalanche danger around the Swiss city of Zermatt has been somewhat weakened. Chances are that the 13,000 trapped tourists can leave the town by train during the day if they want to. The authorities are working hard to free the rails.
The Swiss village of Zermatt is isolated from the outside world. Due to avalanche danger, the authorities have closed the motorways, train connections, ski slopes and hiking trails in the vicinity of the small town near the Matterhorn mountain.
13,000 winter sports enthusiasts in the Swiss ski resort Zermatt have been cut off from the outside world. Due to the heavy snowfall the avalanche danger has been raised to the highest alarm level. As a result, the roads and the track to the area are closed. How long the closure will take is not clear.
An almost five hundred meter long suspension bridge was taken in Switzerland. Hikers can cross a ravine via the Europabrücke (Europa Bridge) at the Zermatt site, told the BBC Saturday.
A professional parachutist accidentally fatalized on Monday near the Swiss Zermatt when a formation jump with three others failed completely. The four jumped at a height of almost 5000 meters from a helicopter.
