Terrifying moment off-piste skiers cheat death after triggering huge avalanche at Italian mountain resort

A brace of thrillseekers person remarkably cheated decease aft they triggered a immense avalanche whilst skiing off-piste. 

In shocking footage, the skiers tin beryllium seen zigzagging down a snowy slope successful Val Venosta, South Tyrol, successful Italy, intimately followed by a immense landslide of snow. 

As they marque their mode down the slope, the duo abruptly look to beryllium engulfed by the snowfall arsenic the avalanche gathers pace. 

Fortunately, the avalanche stopped astatine the 'Des Alpes' chairlift and nary 1 was injured, with the skiers managing to flight astatine the past second. 

They were skiing off-piste which means they weren't connected a prepared slope designed for the sport.  

The incidental took spot connected Tuesday and present the Italian authorities are looking to place the skiers, who reportedly look transgression charges.

Local media reports said that a fig of different avalanches occurred astatine skis resorts connected Wednesday, 29th January.

In the country of Colle del Gigante, astatine implicit 3,000 metres (9,800 feet) supra oversea level, connected the Italian broadside of the Mont Blanc, a 50-year-old German off-piste skier was swept distant but without superior consequences.

He was taken to the exigency country of the Parini Hospital successful Aosta for a checkup and treatment.

In the afternoon, adjacent Passo Venegiota, successful the Belluno area, a 30-year-old skis mountaineer who was portion of a radical of 8 Frenchmen was deed by an avalanche and dragged for astir 400 metres (1,300 feet).

The antheral was transported to the Belluno Hospital, but his beingness is not successful danger.