Avalanches in Italy kill three off-piste skiers in Winter

Avalanches on Saturday killed three people skiing off-piste in he mountains of Trentino Alto Adige and Lombardy, two regions that are home to some of the venues of the Milano Cortina Winter Games.



Two avalanches hit the Marmolada area in the Dolomites, not far from Cortina d'Ampezzo ⁠where the women's Alpine skiing competitions are taking place.

The Alpine rescue service said they recovered the body of a man who had gone off-piste with another three skiers at Punta Rocca, a 3,300-metre peak on the Marmolada massif, the highest mountain in the Dolomites.



The service said the man died buried in the snow after causing the avalanche, despite his three companions having immediately started the search operation with help from other skiers, until rescuers arrived.



Another two off-piste skiers died in Albosaggia, a village in the lower Valtellina valley, some 65 ⁠km east of Bormio, where all of the men's Alpine skiing competitions are being held.