twelfth Could 2025
27 12 months outdated Joshua Byers, from Knaresborough, North Yorkshire was buried by an avalanche at Val Thorens an inquest heard. NEW
The dying occurred after an historic April snowstorm.
He was close to the roadside in Val Thorens when he was swept up and carried 15m by an avalanche on seventeenth April.
We reported on the incident on the time on PlanetSKI.
Mr Byers was taken to hospital in Grenoble the place he was pronounced useless.
An inquest into Mr Byers’ dying, which opened at Northallerton Coroner’s Courtroom and was instructed the provisional reason for dying was asphyxia.
Coroner Jon Heath adjourned the inquest to a future date on the similar venue.
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