Overview
- Three fatal avalanches on Sunday followed three on Saturday, bringing the weekend toll to six off‑piste deaths across La Plagne, Courchevel, Vallorcine, Tignes, Val d’Isère and Arêches‑Beaufort.
- Météo France set risk at level 4 out of 5 over the weekend and nivologists warn instability could persist for weeks, with a marked risk still posted in many northern Alpine massifs.
- Savoie’s high‑mountain gendarmerie urged people to stay off unsecured terrain for the next few days after conducting 13 interventions on Sunday.
- Rescuers described prolonged searches, including a victim found under about 2.5 meters of snow after roughly 50 minutes, and noted that several victims lacked avalanche transceivers.
- Separately in Avoriaz, a station snowmobile struck a chairlift queue, seriously injuring a 22‑year‑old who was airlifted to Geneva; the vehicle was seized for analysis, the driver’s alcohol and drug tests were negative, and a judicial inquiry is underway.