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Fourth avalanche victim after three on Saturday: 19-year-old ski mountaineer dies in South Tyrol

Two snow detachments in Valtellina and Trentino involved groups of ski mountaineers, with mountain rescue operations and a tragic toll of victims and injured.

7 February 2026Aggiornato l’8 febbraio 2026 alle 19:45

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Ski mountaineer in Trentino seriously injured

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A 19-year-old boy died as a result of an avalanche in Val Serentino, in the province of Bolzano. The lifeless body of the young man was found and recovered by the men of the Alpine Rescue Service, who were on the spot.

The avalanche occurred shortly after 2.30 p.m. in Val Sarentino, not far from Lake San Pancrazio. According to reconstruction, the boy is a ski mountaineer from Merano. He was descending the valley in the company of a friend, who was barely touched by the avalanche and immediately managed to raise the alarm.

Mountain rescue, the Pelikan 1 rescue helicopter and the financial police were on the scene.

Three avalanches cause three deaths and several injuries among ski mountaineers

An avalanche broke loose at around 12 noon today on the Meriggio alp, in the municipality of Albosaggia, Valtellina, and swept away three ski mountaineers.

At 5 p.m., the news broke that two people had died in the avalanche that broke loose at lunchtime in Valtellina. The missing hiker was found by the fire brigade, who intervened with a helicopter; he died shortly after being extracted from the snow. The third member of the group, who was on the Meriggio Alp, was almost completely unhurt.

The accident occurred on a day when the avalanche alert in the Orobian Alps was very high, with an index of three on a five-step European scale.

In Trentino two injured

Two people were unhurt, one who suffered multiple traumas and one who injured his lower limb, who were helicoptered to the Santa Chiara Hospital in Trento and the hospital in Cavalese respectively. This is the outcome of the avalanche that broke loose around 12.30 a.m. along the gully that descends from Forcella Ceremana towards Paneveggio Lake, on the border between Val di Fiemme and San Martino, and that involved four ski mountaineers resident in Primiero, aged between 30 and 40. The two unhurt returned home.

The call to the 112 Single Emergency Number arrived at around 12:30 p.m. from one of the four people involved. The Single Emergency Centre sent two operational helicopters, activating at first the Moena and San Martino stations of the Trentino Mountain and Speleological Rescue Service and the Moena State Police, and later also the Fiemme and Fiera stations of the Cnsas. The Caoria and Levio stations will be available.

The helicopters disembarked their respective teams to return to Moena and San Martino and recover additional personnel. The intervention of the operators led to the total recovery of those involved. At the end of the recovery operation, a final clean-up was carried out with the support of the dog units and Artva on the ground, and with Artva from the helicopter.

Avalanche in Marmolada, Italian skier dies

One person died in Trentino in a second avalanche that occurred after 4 p.m. on Marmolada, near Punta Serauta, involving four Italian skiers in their forties. The call to the 112 Single Emergency Number came in around 4.30 p.m. from one of those involved. The operations centre first alerted the Alta Fassa Alpine and Speleological Rescue Station, which was transported to the scene of the event by the Aiut Alpin Dolomites, supported by the Aiut Alpin dog units and the Falco helicopter from Belluno. At the same time, the neighbouring stations of central Fassa, Moena, Fiemme and the Belluno station of Malga Ciapela were also alerted.

The intervention of the operators took place beyond the ski slopes of Punta Rocca, from which the four skiers involved decided to go off-piste - equipped with Artva, shovel and probe -: the first one caused the avalanche to detach and was buried by it. The others, unharmed, started the first search manoeuvres independently and with the help of other uninvolved skiers. While other rescuers from the station remained on standby in Canazei, six Alpine and Speleological Rescue workers went up to the avalanche site. They ascertained the death of the buried man and began the rescue manoeuvres with Artva, followed by the final rotations to transport the body.

For those who want to look at the bulletin before they leave, there is Aineva: the scale is from 1 to 5 yesterday, in one case, the scale was 3.