A BRITISH skier has died after being buried in an avalanche in a popular French ski resort.
The man, aged in his 50s, was found under 2.5 metres (eight feet) of snow after nearly an hour of searching.
More than 50 rescuers were deployed to find him.
Unfortunately he could not be resuscitated.
He was skiing off-piste, according to a statement released by The Plagne ski resort in southeastern France.
Sadly, his death was one of three fatalities in three separate avalanches in the French Alps on Sunday.
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Yesterday, three other skiers died in similar incidents, bringing the weekend toll to six.
Rescue teams recovered the body of another skier who had been buried in an avalanche in Courchevel, the resort said, without providing further details.
And a 32-year-old off-piste skier died after being caught in an avalanche at Vallorcine in the Haute-Savoie region of the Alps, the local gendarmerie said Sunday.
Two separate avalanches claimed the lives of three off-piste skiers in the French Alps on Saturday.
French weather forecasters had warned of a high risk of avalanches this weekend.
Officials in the Savoie region recorded at least six avalanches in the department’s ski areas on Sunday morning.
It comes after a British skier died after suffering a cardiac arrest while traversing the slopes in Italy.
The 49-year-old man was descending a piste on the Claviere slopes in northern Italy when his heart suddenly stopped beating.
The January 4, Alpine tragedy took place at around 10.50am as the man collapsed without warning.
An urgent response from ski patrol teams was launched as they carried out emergency CPR on the Brit and used a defibrillator, according to local media reports.
A helicopter rescue team from Azienda Zero also rushed to the scene due to the hard to reach location on the slopes.
Despite their best efforts, the Brit was pronounced dead at the scene.
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