Deadly Easter Avalanche Claims Six Lives in French Alps.
An avalanche in the French Alps killed six people, including two mountain guides, while one person was sent to the hospital with minor injuries and eight others were found unharmed. The avalanche rolled down the Armancette glacier in Contamines-Montjoie, in the Haute-Savoie region, almost 20 miles southwest of Chamonix. The local France-Bleu radio station put the size of the avalanche at 3,280 feet long and 328 feet wide. National weather agency Meteo France hadn't issued a specific avalanche warning for Sunday, assessing the risk as "limited."
