{"id":432006,"date":"2026-02-18T09:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/432006\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:07:11","slug":"third-briton-dies-in-french-alps-avalanches-in-one-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/432006\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Briton dies in French Alps avalanches in one week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two other skiers who where part of the group in La Grave, a German and an Australian, escaped without injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Tuesday, the French weather service marked the avalanche risk in the La Greve area as &#8220;high&#8221; or four on a five-point scale due to fresh snow and wind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the Valloire resort, the risk was categorised at the maximum of five.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Local authorities have launched investigations to determine the cause of death in both avalanches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following the deaths of the two British nationals on Friday, a spokesperson for the Foreign Office told the BBC they were &#8220;in contact with the local authorities and stand ready to offer consular assistance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There have been a number of fatal avalanches in the French Alps since the start of the year, including six deaths in one weekend in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two other skiers who where part of the group in La Grave, a German and an Australian, escaped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-432006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}