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| Rescue teams searching for a missing skier who was killed by an avalanche in the Scottish Highlands have found his body. | Rescue teams searching for a missing skier who was killed by an avalanche in the Scottish Highlands have found his body. |
| Daniel Maddox, from Clackmannanshire, was skiing in an off-piste area behind Glencoe ski centre when the avalanche struck at around 1pm on Saturday. | Daniel Maddox, from Clackmannanshire, was skiing in an off-piste area behind Glencoe ski centre when the avalanche struck at around 1pm on Saturday. |
| The 41-year-old, who was said to be an experienced skier, was swept away and buried under the snow. | The 41-year-old, who was said to be an experienced skier, was swept away and buried under the snow. |
| About 30 people from Glencoe and Lochaber mountain rescue teams, police, the mountain resort's ski patrol and a helicopter from RAF Lossiemouth were involved in the search.John Grieve, leader of Glencoe mountain rescue team, said Maddox was found under about 13ft of snow and ice. He said the teams had to dig trenches in order to find the skier, as the avalanche had travelled about 1,000ft into a gully and was up to 40ft deep in some places. | |
| "We ended up with about 50 people out there today, with the assistance of two walkers who helped us when we were digging the trenches. | |
| "Two other skiers – who had actually been caught up in another avalanche in the same place a couple of years ago and survived – also came to help with the search, as well as the RAF mountain rescue team from Lossiemouth." | |
| Earlier this year four climbers were killed in an avalanche on Bidean Nam Bian, a mountain which is about 10 miles from Glencoe Ski Centre. | |
| Hospital doctor Rachel Majumdar, 29, PhD students Tom Chesters, 28 and Christopher Bell, 24 and 25-year-old junior doctor Una Finnegan are thought to have fallen 1,000ft in the incident on 19 January. | |
| The following month, three climbers died in hospital after an avalanche in the Cairngorms. | |
| RAF squadron leader Rimon Than, 33, who was based at RAF Valley, North Wales, flight lieutenant Fran Capps, 32, originally from Dulverton, Somerset, and William Currie, 18, from Penzance, Cornwall, were airlifted from the Chalamain Gap area to Aberdeen royal infirmary on 14 February but died of their injuries. |