Overview
- Video from Mount Elbrus shows a massive slide sweeping over a car park at Elbrus Resort in Kabardino-Balkaria.
- Local reports say no deaths have been confirmed from the incident.
- Sections of the mountain were already closed and the cable car had been shut since January 10 due to avalanche danger.
- The incident occurs during a deadly stretch for Europe’s mountains, with at least 17 avalanche fatalities in the past month across the Alps.
- Recent cases include off-piste deaths in France’s Savoie resorts, a ski patroller killed in Vallorcine, and fatalities in Austria’s Tyrol and Italy’s Aosta region.