Overview
- BFMTV and local resorts report three skiers dead after multiple slides in southeastern France, with one person severely injured.
- Two French nationals died off-piste in Val d’Isère, found under about 2.5 meters of snow after their phones helped locate them.
- A third fatality was reported at Arêches‑Beaufort in the Savoie department, where the victim was skiing outside marked runs.
- In Georgia, Life reported that roughly 20 skiers and snowboarders, including Russians, were struck near Tetnuldi and not all were able to self-rescue.
- Rescuers are searching in Upper Svaneti, with victims reportedly under snow for about three hours and the number of casualties still unconfirmed.