A father and his three children, aged 12 to 18, spent nearly two days locked in their converted truck. In a few dozen hours, nearly 80 centimeters of powder fell at an altitude of 2000 meters.
In the neighboring upper Var valley, a group of thirty-year-old Russian and Italians were in turn rescued by the police helicopter on Monday morning. If the snow episode is over and the avalanche risk has gone from strong to moderate, emergency services are calling for extreme caution in the mountains in the coming days.