Local police reported the accident happened at 13:30 local time when the man who was boarding alone off-piste fell 80m from rocks.

The mans identity has not yet been revealed

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The Crawley Observer has this update:

Tributes have been paid to a Winchester doctor who died in a snowboarding accident in the French Alps.

Consultant anaesthetist Dr Robert Bruce, of Kings Worthy, died after falling around 260ft from rocks on Monday afternoon at Val d'Isere.