A BRITISH skier has died after losing control on a Swiss mountain slope and plunging into a nearby river.
The 54-year-old had been skiing an authorised run from the 6,800ft-high Kleine Scheidegg pass toward Brandegg when he suddenly veered off piste.
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He crashed off the marked slope and fell into the Rychenbach Stream on April 11.
Fellow skiers pulled him from the water near the village of Grindelwald and called emergency services.
He was airlifted to hospital in the capital Bern, but tragically died from multiple injuries the next day.
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