The US student is still missing in the avalanche that killed a British teen skiing with her and others from their nearby exclusive Swiss boarding school.
An American teen studying at an exclusive Swiss boarding school is missing, presumed dead after being buried in a 2,500-foot-wide avalanche during a school skiing trip.that a US national was still missing after another pupil she was with, an 18-year-old Briton, was found dead in Meiringen.
Neither school officials nor cops identified either pupil. Social media posts identifying an 18-year-old girl from a Colorado ski town have yet to be corroborated.Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images Rescuers told her parents — who do not appear to have commented on the reports — that “there is no chance of survival” and the girl was “conclusively killed,” the reported friend wrote online.Police released this photo of the huge area covered by the avalanche.The school told the UK Times that both buried students were in a party of 12, including three other students and a mountain guide. They were first to ski down, triggering the avalanche in their wake.
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