Faits divers 
Deux skieurs de randonnée ont été tués dans une avalanche en Savoie dimanche matin. Un troisième est décédé dans l’après-midi et un quatrième est toujours entre la vie et la mort. ++L’avalanche s’est produite vers 8h30 sur le sommet de la Dent Parrachée dans le massif de la Vanoise à 3.600 mètres d’altitude.
Three skies have died and an other is critically injured. Two skiers were killed in an avalanche in the Savoie on Sunday morning. A third died in the afternoon and a fourth is in grave danger. The avalanche occured around 08h30 on the summit of the Dent Parrachée in the expanse of the Vanoise at 3,600 metres altitude.
Environnement 
Quelques grosses avalanches sont à attendre, prévient Météo France. Conséquence du radoucissement sur le massif alpin et des quantités de neige importantes présentes en dessous de 2.000 m. Quatre skieurs hors piste ont trouvé la mort au cours du week-end en Savoie et dans les Hautes-Alpes.
The Savoie had been placed on orange alert due avalanches. Several heavy avalanches were expected by weather forecast France. Melting of the large quantities of snow above 2000 metres on the vast Alpine expanses is causing the alert. Four off piste skiers were found dead during the weekend in the Savoie and the High Alps.
About bill
Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer.
The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013.
Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI.
Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug
2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website.
But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien.
The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50.
Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea.
Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
