Rescue teams searching for a missing skier in the Alps found an "ice cave" dug by a desperate family trying to avoid freezing to death.

The six cross-country skiers, five of them members of the same family from Valais canton, went missing near the 3,710 metre-high Tête Blanche mountain on Saturday on the Zermatt-Arolla path on the Swiss-Italian border.

Rescue teams searching for a missing skier in the Alps found an "ice cave" dug by a desperate family trying to avoid freezing to death.The six cross-country skiers, five of them members of the same family from Valais canton, went missing near the 3,710 metre-high Tête Blanche mountain on Saturday on...{ai:summary}<p>Desperation led a family to dig an "ice cave" in the Alps to survive, as rescue teams found them while searching for a missing skier near Tête Blanche mountain. #outdoors</p>

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