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Avalanches Kill Two Skiers in Austrian Alps
Environmentnewsbeast14h ago

Avalanches Kill Two Skiers in Austrian Alps

Two individuals, a 21-year-old Slovakian and a 41-year-old Austrian, died in separate avalanches in Tyrol and Styria while skiing off-piste, bringing the total avalanche fatalities in Austria to seven within 48 hours.

Rosebush Pruning review – dysfunctional rich family move in strange circles
CultureThe Guardian7d ago

Rosebush Pruning review – dysfunctional rich family move in strange circles

Jamie Bell and Elle Fanning lead a starry cast in this clumsy satire that provides little fascination in a wealthy family’s suffocating lives Since Jesse Armstrong’s Succession and Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn, wealthy, spoilt, dysfunctional siblings are the new rock’n’roll, and now here is a film from Greek screenwriter Efthimis Filippou (co-author of Yorgos Lanthimos’s Alps and Dogtooth) and directed by Karim Aïnouz. It is a weird-wave contrivance concerning a messed-up US plutocrat clan living in Spain, freely remade from Marco Bellocchio’s 1965 film Fists in the Pocket. Their bizarre and cartoony secrets, involving sex abuse, manipulation and self-harm, are satirically symptomatic of capitalism and the patriarchy, and how the rich, however entrepreneurial and smart, create a next-gen class of useless drones, on whose behalf all this wealth has supposedly been accumulated. I have to admit to finding it heavy-handed and clumsy more often than not, although there are some good performances, notably from Jamie Bell and Elle Fanning. A strange extended family lives in a luxurious modernist house; the father (Tracy Letts) is a blind widower haunted by the memories of his late wife (Pamela Anderson) who was savaged by wolves in a nearby forest. His grownup children, infantilised by wealth, all live there: highly strung Robert (Lukas Gage) has epilepsy, and is entrusted with supervising his father’s horse riding; Anna (Riley Keough) is a talentless singer-songwriter; and Ed (Callum Turner) is a would-be fashionista. First among equals is Jack (Jamie Bell), who has the intimate honour of helping his father with his nightly teeth-cleaning; their mother’s teeth were always dazzlingly white. Continue reading...

Seven Avalanche Deaths in Austria Amid Heavy Snowfall
Worldfaz14h ago

Seven Avalanche Deaths in Austria Amid Heavy Snowfall

Heavy snowfall in the Austrian Alps has led to seven avalanche deaths since Friday, making off-piste winter sports extremely dangerous, with other regions like Hungary, Slovenia, and France also facing snow-related challenges.

Avalanche Risk High in Alps and Sweden
Environmentsvenska-dagbladet12h ago

Avalanche Risk High in Alps and Sweden

Popular ski resorts in the Alps and Sweden are facing an unusually high risk of avalanches this year, with experts warning that even small snowfalls can create dangerous conditions.

Third British skier dies as another avalanche hits French Alps
WorldBBCThe Guardian4d ago2 sources

Third British skier dies as another avalanche hits French Alps

Death of Briton along with Polish citizen near La Grave comes four days after fatal avalanche at Val d’Isère A third British man has been killed in an avalanche in the French Alps. The man had been skiing with a group of four others when the avalanche struck near the resort town of La Grave on Tuesday morning, local media reported. Continue reading...

Two British skiers killed in French Alps named
WorldThe Guardian6d ago

Two British skiers killed in French Alps named

Stuart Leslie, 46, and Shaun Overy, 51, died while skiing off-piste in Val d’Isère amid red avalanche alert Two British skiers who died in an avalanche in the French Alps have been named as Stuart Leslie and Shaun Overy. The pair were part of a group of five people, accompanied by an instructor, skiing off-piste in Val d’Isère in south-east France on Friday when they were swept away by falling snow. Continue reading...