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4 swiss and one french were killed in this slide today. Number six was rescued alive and condition is stable.
Looks a bit harsh and steep terrain they entered with the snow conditions these days. The slide was about 1km wide. The casualties were buried at aprox 6 meters deep...
Local norwegian mountain guides say they never take this route down. There were 2 french guides in the total group of 12.
The military joined the S&R with bell choppers and f16 fighters to quickly identify the exact location of the slide.
Sad day

Scary winter everywhere... Very sad.

That is very unfortunate. I really wonder what they were thinking? That face is a ridiculous terrain trap with a extremely large start zone, with multiple rocks to trigger from. Its a really scary face, if a guide took me and 11 other people towards this I'd tell him to piss off.

So sad. That photo is the definition of terrain trap... buried 6 meters deep. Jeezus.
Do you know if the local avalanche center did any investigation of it?

This just happend yesterday.
NGI does the investigation in these accidents. And the report is usually forund on their website some time afterwards
http://www.ngi.no/no/snoskred/Ulykker/