According to the Salzburg Mountain Rescue, four ski tourers were killed on Saturday afternoon when an avalanche swept through the Finsterkopf area in the Großarl Valley, in the federal state of Salzburg. The avalanche occurred at an altitude of around 2,150 meters (7,054 feet) and buried a group of seven ski tourers. Rescue teams were able to recover three people alive, though several sustained serious injuries, while four members of the group were found dead beneath the snow.
The movie played for an unprecedented 14 months, and local parents quickly discovered that the theater doubled as the cheapest babysitter in town. They dropped us off with Maria and the von Trapps at least six to eight times that year, knowing we were in good hands for a few hours of show tunes. Somewhere between "Do-Re-Mi" and the escape from the Nazis over the Alps, I fell hard for musicals, for Austria, and the very handsome Christopher Plummer.
Bronze objects were usually melted down for later reuse, so it is rare for one of this size to survive. It is the largest bronze artifact from Roman Salzburg found since 1943. The object was unearthed last year during excavations of the Neue Residenz in the historic site, the site of the new Salzburg branch of the Vienna Belvedere Museum.