Woman falls to her death at ski resort
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Your support makes all the difference.A British female snowboarder died in Switzerland yesterday after falling into a crevasse near the ski resort of Zermatt.
The woman, 33, who has not been named, was snowboarding with seven other people towards a glacier when she plunged 15m (50ft) at 10am local time.
Her fellow snowboarders contacted the emergency services, who dispatched two helicopters, four mountain rescuers and a doctor to the scene. "Sadly by the time they reached her, the lady was dead,"Renato Kalbermartten, a police spokesman, said.
The group was snowboarding on a high altitude glacier which straddles the Swiss-Italian border near Zermatt. A spokesman for the Foreign Office said yesterday that it was investigating the incident.
On Sunday two British cross-country skiers froze to death in a Norwegian national park after getting caught in a severe storm.
Jim Ross, 50, and Peter Wilson, 18, died of suspected hypothermia in the Hardangervidda region of western Norway. Mr Wilson's father, Rupert, 48, survived after being found by a Red Cross mountain rescue team.
In January, a series of avalanches across the Alps claimed the lives of at least eight people.
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