A British teenager has died after being buried in an avalanche while skiing in Switzerland.
The 18-year-old was taking part in a ski tour group in Meiringen when the avalanche hit on Tuesday afternoon, local police said.
Emergency services recovered his body and are still searching for a second person who was buried.
Cantonal police in Bern received reports around 4.25pm that an avalanche had fallen near Gstelliwang, a ski slope on the Wellhorn mountain in the Bernese Alps.
“A group of several people was on a ski tour. When two of them drove down the Gstelliwang, an avalanche was released, burying them both,” police said.
The search for the second person stopped at 7.30pm on Tuesday and resumed on Wednesday morning.
The British teenager had been living in the canton of Bern, police said.
Rega crews, Swiss Alpine Rescue, several Rega, Air-Glaciers and Swiss Helicopter helicopters, mountain specialists, Bern canton police and the Canton of Bern Care Team were deployed.
Meiringen is a winter sports and mountain hiking resort town in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
Less than 5,000 people live there and many residents are foreign nationals.
Earlier this month several avalanches were reported in Bern, burying several and killing at least one person, according to Swiss newspaper 20 Minuten.
