Five injured in an avalanche

Five mountaineers were swept by an avalanche while climbing a 2,332-metre peak in the north-west of the country on 9 April in bad weather conditions. No one was killed but three of them sustained serious injuries and had to be airlifted to hospital.

Hampered by fog, wind, snow and rain, the rescue operation went on for about seven hours. More than 50 rescuers and two helicopters were deployed, representatives of the Mountain Rescue Association told reporters in Kranjska Gora after completing the rescue mission below Mala Mojstrovka.

"The accident shows the conditions in the...