A British boy who died in a skiing accident while on a family holiday in the French Alps was skiing alone at his own request, according to reports.
The seven-year-old, who has been named in reports as Carwyn Scott-Howell from Talybont-on-Usk in Powys, fell around 160ft from a cliff to his death in the alpine resort of Flaine on Friday.
He had been skiing with his mother, brother and sister but is understood to have asked to ski the day's final descent on his own.
His family became worried after he failed to reach the bottom of the slopes, prompting a search which ended when his body was discovered around three-and-a-half hours later.
The circumstances around the incident are still being investigated by the authorities, with some reports suggesting the boy was instead somehow separated from his family.
There have been reports that the boy was not skiing on his own, and had instead gotten lost from the group he was with.
Michel Ollagnon, an officer with the Bonneville mountain rescue service, said the boy's body was spotted off his expected course by rescuers in a helicopter on Friday evening.
Police chief Patrick Poirot, the head of the mountain rescue division in the nearby town of Annecy, was quoted in the Daily Mirror saying: "Specialists are at the scene to try and determine exactly what happened and understand every element that led to this tragedy.
"Hypothetically we think that, after losing his parents, the little boy didn't know where to go and skied in the wrong direction.
"He's just seven-years-old.
"He left the marked ski slope and probably skied to the top of a cliff.
"He then stopped, removed his skis, walked a little way and then fell.
"He fell 50 metres."
A Foreign Office spokeswoman said they were aware of the death and are providing consular assistance.
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