GenevaLunch » avalanche http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:57:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no 17-yr-old caught by Anzères avalanche, injures knees http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/06/17-yr-old-caught-by-anzeres-avalanche-injures-knees/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/06/17-yr-old-caught-by-anzeres-avalanche-injures-knees/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:28:29 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66329 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A 17-year-old Valais youth was caught by an avalanche Sunday 5 February while skiiing off-piste with his 47-year-old father near Anzères in canton Valais. The two, who were ski touring, had just left a groomed slope for Pointe d’Hérémence. At 2,750 metres, between La Motte and Chamossaire, the avalanche was triggered as [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/06/17-yr-old-caught-by-anzeres-avalanche-injures-knees/feed/ 0 Robberies, fires, accidents mark police holiday season http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/27/robberies-fires-accidents-mark-police-holiday-season/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/27/robberies-fires-accidents-mark-police-holiday-season/#comments Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:08:07 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64850 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Police in the Swiss cantons around the Lake Geneva region have been kept busy over the holidays with road and mountain accidents, bank and post office robberies, and in one happy instance finding suspects and two stolen locomotives from the train park at Le Bouveret in canton Vaud. Chavannes-de-Bogis, Grosse-Pierre / Morges [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/27/robberies-fires-accidents-mark-police-holiday-season/feed/ 0 Italian dies in Saas Almagell avalanche http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/15/italian-dies-in-saas-almagell-avalanche/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/15/italian-dies-in-saas-almagell-avalanche/#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:49:11 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64728 GenevaLunch.com View Larger Map GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A 50-year-old Italian man who lived in Italy died 13 December in hospital in Sion after sustaining critical injuries in an avalanche at Monte Moro near Saas Almagell Sunday 11 December at 14:30. Canton Valais police say that he was part of a group of six Italians who were [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/15/italian-dies-in-saas-almagell-avalanche/feed/ 0 6-yr-old dies after Saas Fee piste avalanche (update) http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/07/6-yr-old-dies-after-saas-fee-piste-avalanche-update/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/07/6-yr-old-dies-after-saas-fee-piste-avalanche-update/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:48:48 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64560 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – A six-year-old Spanish child who was with a ski instructor on the slopes in Saas Fee was buried for 45 minutes by an avalanche in Saas Fee Wednesday afternoon, and died Thursday during the night at the Chuv University Hospitals in Lausanne, say canton Valais police. The child’s teacher was only partially [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/07/6-yr-old-dies-after-saas-fee-piste-avalanche-update/feed/ 0 Fifth victim of March avalanche found http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/19/fifth-victim-of-march-avalanche-found/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/19/fifth-victim-of-march-avalanche-found/#comments Thu, 19 May 2011 09:25:27 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=57886 GenevaLunch.com SION, SWITZERLAND – The body has been found of a 42-year-old French woman, missing since a 26 March avalanche near the St Bernard tunnel caught a dozen ski tourers from Cluses, across the border in France. Four people died, seven were injured and one was missing in the avalanche that was 40 metres wide and [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/19/fifth-victim-of-march-avalanche-found/feed/ 0 Spring skiers beware: avalanche reminder from Crans-Montana http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/08/spring-skiers-beware-avalanche-reminder-from-crans-montana/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/08/spring-skiers-beware-avalanche-reminder-from-crans-montana/#comments Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:55:30 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=56352 GenevaLunch.com View Larger Map Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Police in Valais say no skiers were caught by the 200-metre long avalanche that ran down a groomed ski slope in the resort of Crans-Montana Friday mornng 8 April. The avalanche, 30 metres wide, was apparently triggered by two skiers on the slope at 11:45, near the Col [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/08/spring-skiers-beware-avalanche-reminder-from-crans-montana/feed/ 0 “Gigantic” Val d’Anniviers avalanche kills 3, injures 1 (update) http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/02/gigantic-val-danniviers-avalanche-kills-3-injures-1-update/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/02/gigantic-val-danniviers-avalanche-kills-3-injures-1-update/#comments Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:06:37 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=56006 GenevaLunch.com Update 2 April  Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - A “gigantic” avalanche struck a group of nine people from Friedrichshafen, Germany Friday 1 April at 09:45 in canton Valais. They were ski-touring in the region of the Montagne de Nava, near Ayer in the Val d’Anniviers. Two people were killed and two others were sent to hospital. [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/02/gigantic-val-danniviers-avalanche-kills-3-injures-1-update/feed/ 1 4 avalanche deaths, 3 critically injured, search off (update 4) http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/26/4-avalanche-deaths-3-critically-injured-search-off-update-4/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/26/4-avalanche-deaths-3-critically-injured-search-off-update-4/#comments Sat, 26 Mar 2011 22:39:33 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=55785 GenevaLunch.com Search called off: risk too high for rescuers Update 4, Monday 28 March  Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) -The one person missing and presumed buried under a massive amount of snow in Saturday’s Valais avalanche is a 44-year-old French woman. The last of four people to have died is a 49-year-old woman who was taken to the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/26/4-avalanche-deaths-3-critically-injured-search-off-update-4/feed/ 2 Avalanche near Grand St Bernard: 3 dead, 7 injured, 1 missing (update 2) http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/26/one-person-missing-after-avalanche-near-grand-st-bernard/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/26/one-person-missing-after-avalanche-near-grand-st-bernard/#comments Sat, 26 Mar 2011 14:43:16 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=55775 GenevaLunch.com Update 2 19:15  Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Eleven people were caught by an avalanche early Saturday afternoon 26 March. Three people have died and one is missing. Five others who were injured were taken to hospitals in Martigny and Sion while one person, critically injured, was flown to the Chuv university hospitals in Lausanne, Valais [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/26/one-person-missing-after-avalanche-near-grand-st-bernard/feed/ 0 Another accident-riddled weekend in Switzerland http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/21/another-accident-riddled-weekend-in-switzerland/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/21/another-accident-riddled-weekend-in-switzerland/#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2011 08:50:16 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=55529 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A German who was ski-touring in Zermatt lost his life Sunday. Elsewhere in the Lake Geneva region there were a number of serious accidents, from fires to road crashes. The 52-year-old German was part of a group of five people who had been at the mountain hut Brittania. They were heading [...]

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