The 25-year-old was working at the French Alps resort of Meribel, reports sayA young British snowboarder who suffocated after falling head-first into a snow drift in the Alps could have been buried for 30 minutes before he was discovered, French authorities have said. The 25-year-old man, who was working a season in the resort of Meribel, was found in an off-piste area of the Allues area of the mountain. He was spotted by two witnesses skiing nearby who noticed a snowboard sticking out of the snow about 20m from the piste. In January this year, Britons Oscar Cassagneau-Francis and Rajen Mahendra, both 26, were killed after falling hundreds of meters in an off-piste area while skiing in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc. In February, another British skier was killed when he and two friends ran into difficulty after venturing off-piste in the Alpe d’Huez ski resort region of the central French western Alps.

Source: The Guardian April 06, 2018 05:37 UTC