Alps

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SPATE OF SLIDES

Intense Clip Shows Moment Skiers Are Smothered by Avalanche

It is just the latest slide to rock the Alps.

Harry Thompson

Pierre Wolnik

Skydiving Champion Dies at 37 After Fatal Parachute Failure

The wingsuit flyer’s parachute failed to deploy during a jump over the French Alps.

Vic Verbalaitis

Helicopter in Alps.

Oblivious Hiker Billed $16,000 for Helicopter Rescue

Italian authorities had to send not one but two helicopters to rescue the man.

Jack Silvers

Michael Halbye, Lego executive, has died in a skiing accident.

Lego Exec Dies After Horrific Alpine Skiing Accident

Michael Halbye was a close friend of the Danish royal family.

Tom Sanders

Emile, a missing boy, who disappeared on July 8, 2023 in Le Vernet, southeastern France

‘HEARTBREAKING’

Toddler’s Bones Found 8 Months After Disappearance

The two-and-a-half-year-old boy vanished from a tiny hamlet in the French Alps while staying with his grandparents last July.

AJ McDougall

Mysterious 280 million-year-old fossil is mostly just black paint

280-Million-Year-Old Lizard Is Found to Be Mostly Paint

The new study’s discovery brings with it fresh doubt to the veracity of the creature’s assigned taxon.

Edith Olmsted