Skiing Tragedy in the Alps

Rescuers searching for one of the remaining 6 skiers who were buried by an avalanche when descending from the famous Weissfluhjoch to Davos on the Parsenn ski trail in Switzerland. Two of the skiers were rescued and 3 including a woman were killed in the avalanche. This Swiss soldier uses a mine detector to pick up signals from the small metal parts of the equipment used by the missing skier, Richard Jackson of Laiolla [?], California, USA. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)