The body of the second Swedish skier who died after being swept away by an avalanche that fell yesterday in the Canale degli Spagnoli, in Val Veny, above Courmayeur, was identified this morning .

The body was taken to the town mortuary .

The rescuers identified it with a helicopter flyover , using the Artva, a device for searching for those missing under an avalanche.

The young woman was part of a group of four boys between the ages of 21 and 25 , from the Scandinavian country, engaged in an off-piste descent: the body of a twenty-five year old had already been recovered yesterday afternoon, while the two boys managed to save themselves they were in the group .

Operations had been suspended in the late afternoon due to poor visibility, which made it impossible to assess the danger of further detachments.

The good weather conditions this morning instead allowed the men of the Aosta Valley Alpine Rescue and the Alpine Rescue of the Entrèves finance police to operate.

The avalanche detached at about 2,300 meters , covering a development of about 600 meters, reaching the valley floor.

(Unioneonline/vl)

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