{"id":255673,"date":"2026-01-21T06:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T06:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/255673\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T06:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T06:20:09","slug":"irish-skier-dies-of-avalanche-injuries-sustained-in-switzerland-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/255673\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish skier dies of avalanche injuries sustained in Switzerland \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Irish skier in his 50s seriously injured in an avalanche in the Alps a week ago has died in Switzerland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The man was the latest person to lose his life in a spate of deadly avalanches this month in the Swiss, Austrian and French Alps. Heavy snowfall increases the risk of avalanches. <\/p>\n

Police in the Swiss canton of Valais said the man died overnight of injuries sustained shortly after noon on January 13th. No information was provided on the man\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the night of January 19th\/20th, the victim died from his injuries,\u201d a police statement said. \u201cHe was an Irish national aged 53.\u201d<\/p>\n

The man was swept away when an avalanche struck as he and two fellow-skiers were descending the east face of the Six Noir mountain, police said.<\/p>\n

They were in an area known as Trou de Bougnonne, which lies above Ovronnaz, a resort at the foot of the Muverans mountain range.<\/p>\n

The man\u2019s companions raised the alarm. He was located in the snow using avalanche transceivers, a kind of emergency beacon worn close to the body which emits a radio signal that can be picked up by other transceivers in the area.<\/p>\n

The man was pulled from the snow at the scene before he was taken by helicopter to hospital in Sion, the capital of the canton.<\/p>\n

Asked about the case, the Department of Foreign Affairs said it was \u201caware of reports and stands ready to provide consular assistance\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs with all consular cases, the Department does not comment on the details of individual cases,\u201d a spokesman said. <\/p>\n

Three avalanches across the Austrian Alps claimed eight lives on Saturday<\/a>. Reports suggest 11 other people died in similar accidents in the previous week in Austria, France and Switzerland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Irish skier in his 50s seriously injured in an avalanche in the Alps a week ago has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,301,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-255673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-switzerland","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}