“I’m suffocating, I’m suffocating.” It is the dramatic cry of alarm launched by a 44-year-old, Alfonso Flostergher, originally from Milan and employee of a hotel in the Aosta Valley, who on the afternoon of 12 February 2026 was hit by an avalanche above Gressoney-La-Trinitè while he was taking a walk on a snow-covered path. Buried under one and a half meters of snow, he managed to call 112 thanks to an air bubble that had formed in the middle of the avalanche. But he didn’t say anything else and the communication immediately stopped. It was geolocalized and the search operation began, which lasted over three hours, with the use of photoelectric cameras and drones. Eventually he was identified by an avalanche dog, Colmar (source Ansa Video):
