vercors

Fifteen students, their teacher, an aspiring guide, and a guide were skiing on a school field trip in the Vercors area of France when they triggered an avalanche that carried 3 of them away off the Roc Cornafion (2,049m or 2,722ft) above the town of Villard-de-Lans at about 12:30pm today. The 3 people caught in the avalanche – two students and a guide – were all fully buried. Their ski partners were able to successfully recover two of the buried skiers within 20 minutes but not a 17-year-old student. […]