11.   In recent days several people have been killed by avalanches in those countries and many are still missing.

12.   Seventeen people have been killed by avalanches in the region in the last five days and authorities have forcefully warned skiers to avoid skiing off trail.

13.   The accident brings to five the number of people killed by avalanches in the French Alps over the weekend.

14.   The accident brings to six the number of people killed by avalanches in the French Alps over the weekend.

15.   The two previous worst avalanches each killed seven heli-skiers.

16.   They are most common in the Mount Washington area of New Hampshire, where an avalanche Sunday killed one person.

17.   They are most common in the Mount Washington area of New Hampshire, where an avalanche Sunday killed at least one person.

18.   An avalanche killed eight Indian soldiers in the northern Indian state of Kashmir, the Press Trust of India reported on Saturday.

19.   Avalanches killed four more Germans on the Swiss side of the border in Fimber valley near Ischgl in the Tyrol.

20.   Two other skiers also died Sunday at Chamonix under Mont Blanc, while avalanches Saturday killed two more people and injured five elsewhere in the Alps, officials said.