Five German climbers, including a 17-year-old girl, were killed in an avalanche in the Dolomite mountains in Italy on Saturday afternoon, according to mountain rescue services.
One person was killed and another went missing in an avalanche in the southern German state of Bavaria close to the Austrian border, police said Saturday.
Heavy snowfall in southern Germany and the deaths of skiers prompted authorities Sunday to raise the avalanche alert warning in the Bavarian Alps to the second-highest level.
Seven people, including four Germans, were killed Tuesday when an avalanche swept them away in the French Alps, a local official told AFP, one of the deadliest snowslides to hit France over the past decade.
The boss of one of Germany's best-known breweries died in an avalanche in the Canadian province of British Columbia on Monday morning while taking part in a heli-ski expedition.
Three men from south-western Germany were killed on Friday after their ski group was caught up in what rescuers said was a gigantic avalanche in the Swiss mountains.
Rescue workers have freed an 84-year-old shepherd woman after she spent two days buried under an avalanche in her cabin on a mountainside in the Bavarian Alps, daily <i>Bild</i> reported on Wednesday.
One man is dead, one severly injured, and another missing after heavy snowfall in southern Germany caused numerous avalanches in the Bavarian Alps, police said on Friday.
