Six athletes were found unresponsive after a party was engulfed by an avalanche from California.

Los Angeles: Six others who had been stranded have since been rescued, according to authorities, but nine athletes have still been missing after an deluge in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains.

A group of runners were swept by the avalanche in Truckee, California’s Castle Peak area on Tuesday ( US time ), according to a Facebook statement posted by the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office.

Those who were saved have a variety of injury, and two of them were taken to a hospital for treatment.

The sheriff’s department increased the group’s size from an earlier measure of 16 to 15 people.

The incident had rank among the deadliest one avalanches on history in the United States if all nine of the missing athletes perished. Six US avalanche fatalities have been reported so far this year according to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center.

Over the past ten years, landslides have claimed an average of 27 life each spring in the United States, according to the center.

On Tuesday, heavy snowfall was forecast for much of north California due to a winter storm notice.

The Sierra Avalanche Centre issued a caution of a “high avalanche threat” in the alpine area before dawn on Tuesday, according to the coroner’s statement.

Rescue groups had to navigate more avalanche challenges, according to a spokesperson for the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office, Captain Russell Greene.

According to Greene, “it’s going to be a slow, tedious process because they have to be very vigilant when approaching the place because the risk of an avalanche is still very high.”

According to Greene,” I don’t think it was a clever choice” about a skiing trip company’s decision to send paying customers into the mountains in such circumstances.

From Tahoe Donner’s Alder Creek Adventure Center and Boreal Mountain Ski Resort, save skiing groups were dispatched to the avalanche area.

The survivors had arranged for themselves in a temporary house, which had been partially made of canvas sheets, and had words and radio beaconed the rescuers.

Greene declined to disclose the number of ski instructions and clients who were missing.

According to the coroner’s statement, weather conditions were still toxic in the Sierra wilderness slopes, with more avalanche activity forecast through Tuesday evening and into Wednesday.

California Governor Gavin Newsom received information on the deluge, and his office announced in a publish on X that state officials were” coordinating an all-hands search-and-rescue work” in collaboration with local emergency team.

Three people were killed and four were injured in two distinct landslides in the French Alps this week, according to local authorities and European media.

A big slide, about 300 meters wide, swept across a street and a walkway in Valloire, south France, according to a statement from the Savoie prefecture.

More than four hours of rescue groups, which included rock police officers, rescuers, dog units, and military specialists, were deployed before operations were called off in the late afternoon due to the risk of more avalanches, the district added.

According to the report, two of the injured were seriously ill and had to be flown by helicopter to local facilities.

Two runners had died before in an off-piste landslide in La Grave in the nearby Hautes-Alpes area, according to a prosecutor in the city of Gap, according to French broadcaster BFMTV.

The deaths occur as France struggles with heavy rain in the Alps and flood in many northern regions following days of heavy rainfall.

Reuters

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