Italian Alps

• ‘Watermelon snow’: Italian glacier turns pink, making it melt faster

  Darkened snow melts faster than white snow, which typically reflects back 80 per cent of the sun's rays.

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  Jul 7, 2020
  
• Death toll from Italian Alps avalanches rises to 4

  The latest death is the fourth in just a 24-hour period. A day earlier, a wall of snow crashed into a group of German skiers in the Senales valley of Bolzano province, killing two 7-year-old girls and the mother of one of them.

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  Dec 29, 2019
  
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• 8 mountain climbers die in 3 different accidents in Alps over the weekend

  Eight mountain climbers have died in three different accidents this weekend in the Austrian and Italian Alps.

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  Aug 27, 2017
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• Police: 6 backcountry skiers dead in Italian Alps avalanche

  Six backcountry skiers died Saturday in an avalanche in the Italian Alps, others were rescued as emergency workers were still looking for possible victims.

  World

  Mar 12, 2016