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The helicopter with four extreme skiers aboard reached 11,644ft peak of Petit Combin at 9.25am and tragedy unfolded shortly after when the chopper crashed into the side of the Petit Combin.
Guy Hutchings, 23, was in the cabin along with brother Ted, 18, and another Brit Edward Courage, of the Courage brewing family, when disaster struck.
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A British skier pushed two brothers out of a helicopter to safety as it slid off a mountain in an avalanche in the Swiss Alps. Three others were killed in the crash.
The Courage brewery heir pushed the British brothers out of the helicopter seconds before it was consumed by an avalanche
Avalanche kills three but Edward Courage, of the brewery family, rescued after five hours