A 55-year-old British man died after an avalanche descended on the Chamonix valley at the foot of the French side of the Mont Blanc.

A SKIER who died in a massive avalanche in the French Alps had his body discovered thanks to his elbow still sticking out from the snow. The 55-year-old was swept away on Tuesday afternoon while

A British man has died after being swept away by an avalanche in an off-piste sector in the Chamonix valley, at the foot of Mont Blanc.

Two separate avalanches killed four Norwegians and one Swiss skier.

A British skier has been killed in a “very large” avalanche in the French Alps. The unnamed 55-year-old man died after being swept away in an off-piste section of the Chamonix valley, at the base of Mont Blanc, on Tuesday afternoon.

An avalanche in the French Alps on Wednesday killed four Norwegian skiers swept away by the off-piste torrent of snow and ice, officials in the southeastern Savoie region told AFP.

A British skier has died following a “very large” avalanche in the French Alps. The 55-year-old man was found in the snow in an off-piste sector in a valley in Chamonix at the foot of Mont Blanc. The avalanche, which happened on Tuesday afternoon, is estimated to have been 1km long and 400m wide.

Four Norwegians and a Swiss woman were reportedly killed in avalanches while skiing off-piste in the French Alps on Wednesday. The Norwegians were part of a group of seven that was swept away by an avalanche in Val-Cenis in the southeastern Savoie region near the Italian border.

The horrific discovery took place near a resort in the French Alps, where a 'very large' avalanche had caught the British skier by surprise in the Chamonix Valley