5 h. ago Salzburg avalanche horror in Austrian Alps 'kill five ski tourists'

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5 h. ago Salzburg avalanche horror as five killed and two injured after buried under snow

Seven people were left trapped under snow after an avalanche took the lives of five people in Salzburg, Austria, just hours after a woman was also trapped under one

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28 h. ago Huge avalanche ploughs through ski resort on Europe’s highest mountain

An avalanche has swept through a ski resort on Europe’s tallest mountain, sending tourists fleeing in panic.

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28 h. ago Avalanche sweeps through ski area on Europe’s highest mountain in Russia

An avalanche has swept through a ski resort on Europe’s tallest mountain, sending tourists fleeing in panic.

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35 h. ago Terrifying moment enormous avalanche engulfs ski resort at Europe's tallest mountain before sweeping over tourists as they ran for their lives

Dramatic footage taken on Mount Elbrus, in southern Russia, shows a torrent of snow tearing down the mountainside on Thursday.

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4 d. ago Tourists blindly follow their GPS and end up driving on a SKI SLOPE in Andorra

The three women, from Taiwan, only realised something was wrong when their SUV became stuck while travelling up a ski run near Grau Roig.

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5 d. ago Tourist found dead in gondola on mountain summit at ski resort

The tourist, who had boarded the lift by himself, is believed to have suffered a cardiac arrest while on the gondola at the Val Cenis ski resort in Savoie, France

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5 d. ago Horrified ski resort workers find dead tourist in a gondola when it arrives at mountain summit in France

A 53-year-old man was believed to have suffered a cardiac arrest after boarding the lift at the Val Cenis ski resort in Savoie (stock), alone.

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2 w. ago Four more Swiss bar fire victims identified as families of the missing to give DNA

The four tragic victims were among 40 people killed in the New Year’s Eve nightclub inferno in the tourist ski resort of Crans-Montana, Valais - many families are still waiting for news

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3 w. ago Tourist killed beside wife in ski lift horror after chair slides 230ft before crashing

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3 w. ago Tourist killed beside his wife in ski lift horror: Chair slides 230ft backwards down cable, smashing into seat behind them, with victims trapped for hours

The fatal accident happened at around 1pm on Saturday at the Savin Kuk resort resort near the mountain town of Žabljak, a popular winter destination in the country's north.

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3 w. ago Japanese ski resort to fine disruptive tourists amid huge surge in visitor numbers

Hakuba has seen tourist numbers jump eight-fold in just one year

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