Students Missing After French Avalanche

So far this year, four people have lost their lives in avalanches in the French Alps.

Visiting the school, the minister expressed her condolences to the victims’ families and urged their peers to “stay strong”.

One rescue worker reportedly said there was a very thick layer of snow after the avalanche, making it even more hard to find the missing.

Two children are dead following a massive avalanche in the French Alps, and now, attention is turning to the teacher who allegedly led the group of students into danger.

British school parties regularly holiday in the French Alps, but there is no suggestion as yet that the group is from the UK.

However. rescuers are continuing to examine the area this evening for more skiers that may have been buried under the snow.

France’s National Gendarmerie said on Twitter that a helicopter equipped with a thermal camera is helping to search for survivors.

No confirmed number of missings was officially disclosed.

The regional government has urged skiers and other mountain users to take extra care and stay on marked pistes.

One gendarme told a local radio station: “It is incomprehensible to take children on a closed slope when avalanche warnings are in place”.

The local police in Grenoble reported to NBC News that the high school ski group was from the Saint-Exupery High School in Lyon.

‘A teacher was found on the surface of the avalanche with multiple injuries. A Ukrainian skier was also killed in the slide.

Yesterday, a representative for the BASS Ski School 2 Alpes released a video about the avalanche risk on the slopes.

It is believed the slope the school group were skiing on was graded as a “black” slope, which is the steepest rating.