Five of Six Missing Skiers Found Dead in Switzerland

Five cross-country skiers who went missing during a ski tour in Switzerland were found dead, while a search was still on for the sixth skier, police said in a statement on March 11.

Skiers rescued after avalanche in western Austria

All ten members of a group of skiers caught in an avalanche near the resort of Lech-Zuers in western Austria on Sunday have been rescued, police say.

Ski resort in French Alps: All skiers reported safe after resort struck by avalanche

No one has been hurt in an avalanche that struck the French ski resort of Tignes, reports say.
Early reports quoted police as saying the avalanche buried several skiers.

Merkel injured while skiing in Switzerland (video BBC)

BERLIN, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel has injured her pelvis in a cross-country skiing accident in Switzerland and will have to cancel several meetings, her spokesman Steffen Seibert said on Monday.

The accident happened in the alpine Engadine region of eastern Switzerland during Merkel's Christmas holiday in December. Her fall occurred "at lower speed," Seibert said. 

Merkel first thought it was just a bruise. After her return to Berlin, the chancellor sought medical treatment and it was determined she suffered "a severe bruise linked with an incomplete bone fracture in her left rear pelvic area."