At least eight people were killed and hundreds more were forced to leave their snowbound villages. Avalanches brought tonnes of snow in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir.

Before you hear it in the inevitably snarkier fashion, let me be among the first to report the death of actor Christopher Allport (pictured above in DEAD AND BURIED) in an avalanche that occurred on Friday at the Mountain High Ski Area in Los Angeles' San Gabriel Mountains.