"Luckily there were no people on the piste because of the time of the avalanche and the recent bad weather, or more people may have been injured." She added that the resorts of Ischgl and Galtuer ...

31 people - locals and tourists - died. Governor Anton Mattle, as mayor of Galtür, was the head of operations during the avalanche disaster in 1999. He looks back in an interview with "Krone".

A huge avalanche buried several houses and killed 31 people at the Galtuer ski area in western Austria's Tyrol region on February 23. The next day, another slide killed seven more people in the ...