"Avalanches from heavy snowfall in the European Alps claimed more lives over the weekend, as a train was derailed by a snow slide in Switzerland on Monday and roads and villages around Mont Blanc were closed or placed under evacuation orders. As large areas of the western Alps remained under a high risk of avalanche following a week in which alerts reached category 5, the highest level Swiss police said a train derailment caused by an avalanche injured five people near the town of Goppenstein."
"Fresh snowfall during recent storms and windswept snowcaps on weak internal layers have created especially risky conditions along the entire Alpine crescent bordering France, Switzerland and Austria, Alpine Rescue said. Under such conditions, the passage of a single skier, or natural overloading from the weight of snow, can be sufficient to trigger an avalanche,'' said Federico Catania, Italy's Alpine Rescue Corps spokesman."
Heavy snowfall across the European Alps produced avalanches causing multiple deaths, injuries, and major disruptions. A snow slide derailed a train near Goppenstein, Switzerland, injuring five people, while roads and villages around Mont Blanc faced closures and evacuations. Several skiers died in recent incidents, including three in Val d'Isere (two British and one French) and two in the Couloir Vesses off-piste route in Courmayeur. Alpine Rescue reported 13 off-piste fatalities in the Italian mountains over a recent week, with ten caused by avalanches on an unstable snowpack. Fresh snow and windswept caps on weak internal layers have left the Alpine crescent at especially high avalanche risk.
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