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A 33-year-old has died in an avalanche in Austria after his mobile phone froze preventing his call for help. The skier was the son of Neumarkt Mayor, Emmerich Riesner. Andreas Riesner was skiing with a friend on the 2600 metre Hochkalter Mountain in …