A teacher, who was accompanying a group of 19 school children at Les Deux Alpes resort in France, is being charged with involuntary manslaughter after two young skiers—a 14-yearold boy and a 16-year-old girl—were killed in an avalanche this week.
According to CNN, the children were under the teacher’s supervision and skied a steep section of the resort that had been closed all winter, initially because of low snow, then avalanche danger as the season has progressed. The teacher was still in the hospital with injuries suffered during the slide. A Ukrainian skier, apparently alone, also died.
The news outlet reported the teacher was talked into skiing the area by more advanced skiers in the school group and that it was marked as off limits.
The investigation is still very much pending. Of note in the inquiry is a report that a person who was part of a group of backcountry skiers from Romania and Hungary, told police their group of 15 might have set off the deadly avalanche. No word on whether that would lessen the teacher’s culpability in the incident.
There were at least 10 people caught in the slide that saw some 80 volunteer, military and ski resort personnel respond to the incident.
