Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - A snowboarder, about age 55 was killed when he crashed into a snow grooming machine in the resort of Grindelwald Wednesday morning 23 March.

The machine’s lights were flashing and the driver attempted to warn the snowboarder, who came over a crest, but he was unable to stop in time. Police are seeking the victim’s identity.

The accident took place at 11:15 on the First slopes.

Zermatt, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A 22-year-old man from canton Valais was killed Saturday night on the outskirts of Zermatt, following a ski accident. The youth left a “public establishment” on the slopes, a few hundred metres from the village, say cantonal police, carrying a young woman on his back as he skied down a floodlit piste. Shortly after joining the piste he crashed into a woman on a snowboard.

The young man went into the safety nets at the edge of the piste but was critically injured, and he died soon afterwards.

The two women were slightly injured.

Police have opened an investigation into the accident. This is the second accident in two days on slopes near Zermatt.

Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - An 18-year-old Spanish youth who went missing Sunday afternoon in heavy fog while snowboarding in the French Alps  has been found alive.  The young man was near the resort of Deux-Alpes (map), at an altitude of 3,200 metres, when he became lost in bad weather, which then prevented search parties from finding him. His life is not in danger, say French authorities, although he was suffering from hypothermia and appeared to have given up on being found when skies cleared long enough for a helicopter patrol to find him at 1,275 metres, only 500 metres from the road, as the crow flies.

Rescuers are calling it a miracle, that he managed to get down some 2,000 metres of untraced mountain without any avalanches or cliffs.

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