The 71-year-old was swept away by a slab of snow that fell onto a closed ski run near the Tirol town of Fiss, rescue services told the APA news agency.

A 44-year-old German ski mountaineer died in an avalanche in the Navis valley. Another ski mountaineer was swept away and died at Vorarlberg.

On Monday, two Austrian snowboarders were killed off-piste in an avalanche at Stubai in the Tirol.

The entire Alpine range has had one of its deadliest winter seasons in many years amid heavy snowfall and rain.

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