Ten skiers were \u200bmissing and another six were stranded after an avalanche struck \u200bnear Lake Tahoe in the Sierra \u200bNevada mountains of \u2060California on Tuesday. The avalanche swept the Castle Peak \u200barea of \u200cTruckee, California, about 10 miles north of Lake Tahoe, at \u200babout 11:30 a.m. Pacific time, engulfing a group of 16 skiers on the slopes, according to \u200ca \u200cFacebook statement \u200bposted by the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office. The group consisted of four ski guides and 12 \u200bclients. At least six survived and remained at the avalanche site awaiting rescue, while the \u200bothers were unaccounted for, the statement said. The Sierra Avalanche Center had issued a warning earlier in the day stating that a “high avalanche \u200cdanger exists in the backcountry” of the ski area, the statement added. Rescue ski teams \u2060were dispatched \u200bto the avalanche zone from the Boreal Mountain Ski Resort and Tahoe Donner’s Alder Creek Adventure \u2060Center, \u2060and dozens of \u2060emergency personnel had arrived at the scene<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ten skiers were \u200bmissing and another six were stranded after an avalanche struck \u200bnear Lake Tahoe in the Sierra \u200bNevada mountains of \u2060California on Tuesday. The avalanche swept the Castle Peak \u200barea of \u200cTruckee, California, about 10 miles north of Lake Tahoe, at \u200babout 11:30 a.m. Pacific time, engulfing a group of 16 skiers on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n