1.   A Vermont skier died Tuesday after a headlong slide into rocks at Tuckerman Ravine, as US Forest Service officials warned that conditions there had grown particularly hazardous.

2.   Two cross-country skiers also died in Nevada, and there were five storm-related deaths reported in Southern California.

3.   While back-country skiers die each year, as a group they have educated themselves well, Kimbrough said.

4.   A British skier died Tuesday of injuries sustained a day earlier in a fall during practice for the international lowlander skiing championships, the Austria Press Agency reported.

5.   Four Romanian skiers died in an avalanche in the Carpathian Mountains, a police officer said Wednesday.

6.   On Friday, a skier died of injuries he sustained after being engulfed in cascading snow near the Valmorel ski station in the Savoie region.

7.   One skier died in another mountainous region.

8.   The French skier died after colliding with a German coach during training in Austria.

9.   Three skiers died in the Czech Republic, two of them in a snowstorm in the Krkonose Mountains in northern Bohemia.

10.   Five skiers died and another was seriously injured when they were swept away by avalanches in the French Alps and Pyrenees, police said Sunday.