The snow masses loosened at around 2600 meters and covered three people from a group of six. One of the buried people was able to free himself, two people died.
The disaster occurred near the Rossbodenpass, above Simplon-Dorf, as the Valais canton police announced. The group of six had climbed from Simplon-Dorf to the Rossbodenpass, which is around 3150 meters high.
Shortly after 12:30 p.m., when the group was back on the way back towards the Griesernagletscher, the avalanche dissolved in a couloir at an altitude of around 2600 meters. The casualties had previously climbed, the police wrote.
The six touring skiers were members of a section of the Swiss Alpine Club (SAC). They had been led by a SAC tour guide. The two fatalities, two Swiss, were 55 and 57 years old and lived in the canton of Geneva. The prosecutor launched an investigation into the accident.
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