A British teenager has been killed in an avalanche while skiing off-piste in Austria.
Cameron Bespolka, 16, from Winchester, was skiing with his brother, his father and a ski instructor at the Austrian resort of Lech am Arlberg.
The avalanche buried three of the four, with the brother escaping unhurt because he was slightly behind the others.
The boy’s father, 51, was pulled from the snow alive, but with serious injuries, while the ski instructor who was also buried with the family emerged with light injuries.
Police said that the route which the group had been taking when they were struck was not an authorised one.
They confirmed that the ski instructor was being investigated on charges of "negligence leading to serious injury with fatal consequences", reports the Daily Mail.
At the time of the accident the region had issued only a category 1 avalanche warning, meaning there was a very low risk of an avalanche.
