The Brazilian-Portuguese national was found dead by mountain rescuers.

Four Norwegian skiers died on Wednesday, January 29, in an avalanche in the French Alps, according to the authorities of the Haute Savoie region.

The victim, aged 55, died after being swept away by an avalanche in an off-piste sector in the Chamonix valley, at the foot of Mont Blanc, on Tuesday afternoon

Two separate avalanches killed five skiers across the French Alps on Wednesday, according to several news reports. Four of the deceased — all Norwegians — were caught in an avalanche at Val-Cenis. Three of them were pronounced dead at the scene,

An avalanche in the French Alps on Wednesday killed four Norwegian skiers swept away by the off-piste torrent of snow and ice, officials in the southeastern Savoie region told AFP.