Avalanches cause three deaths in Piedmont, Alto Adige and Valle D'Aosta.
He was part of a group of four ski mountaineers, the snowboarder overwhelmed and killed by an avalanche above Alagna, in the Vercelli area . Two were involved only in part and left the snow alone, while a third went downstream looking for a telephone signal.
The alarm was triggered at 12.40 pm, when the operations center sent on the spot, near the Civera pass, a 118 ambulance with a technician and the dog rescue unit on board.
According to the reconstruction of the rescuers, the avalanche was divided into two languages. The technicians started the research in one place, while the helicopter went down to Alagna to retrieve two other technicians from the mountain rescue and the financial police. This second team was taken to the other end of the avalanche, which immediately found the missing thanks to the Artva device with which the buried man was equipped. With the head at about 60 centimeters deep, it was extracted from the snow, stabilized and transported in very serious conditions to the hospital of Borgosesia, where he died.
Traversed by an avalanche and plunged into a rocky crevasse on the Alpe di Siusi, a 62-year-old South Tyrolean woman from Brunico did not manage to survive the accident that took place this morning at about 13.00 while taking a walk on snow with snowshoes. The alarm was launched by the hiker who was with her and preceded her on skis. The mountain rescue service, by helicopter, identified it and freed it from the snow not even half an hour after the fall, but now the woman was no longer breathing.
A 49-year-old mountain guide from Valle d'Aosta, Roberto Ferraris, died after being hit by an avalanche in Valtournenche, in the Aosta Valley. The incident occurred in the area of Punta Fontana Fredda, at about 2,300 meters above sea level, above the hamlet of Cheneil. The victim, who was doing ski touring, was part of the Mountain Rescue service of the Cervinia finance guard
