PHOTO: Telegraph
A 48-year-old British man died Monday after falling 150 metres (165 yards) while ski-ing off piste in the French Alps, police said.
Catch the snow: Skiing in Switzerland
The circumstances of the incident, which occurred in an off-piste area above the ski resort of La Plagne 200 kilometers (125 miles) east of Lyon, were not immediately clear.
In January two French teenagers and a Ukrainian man were killed when an avalanche swept away skiers including a group of students at the Deux Alpes resort.
Skiing: Jamil, Irshad bag silver, bronze in South Korea
Days later five French Foreign Legionnaires were killed during a training exercise near the resort of Valfrejus.
COMMENTS
Comments are moderated and generally will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive.
For more information, please see our Comments FAQ