Pinault cultivated a friendship with him and visited him in his studio in Merano, Stingel's hometown in the South Tyrol region.

WSJ: Collecting Art With Fran?ois Pinault

Four people have been confirmed dead and one woman is reported missing after two avalanches in the Austrian province of Tyrol.

BBC: Four killed in Austrian avalanches

She died after skiing off piste and crashing into a tree during a winter holiday in the Tyrol region of Austria.

BBC: Jemima Prees

He added that she was wearing a helmet at the time of the crash in the Mayrhofen resort in the Tyrol region.

BBC: Wiltshire girl dies after Austria ski tree crash

Its high-wattage members still ride together each year to exotic destinations, cruising at breakneck speeds to the Austrian Tyrol and the Italian Dolomites, stopping at castles for lunch.

FORBES: Vroom Mates

During her recent walking holiday in the mountains of south Tyrol a number of CDU heavyweights, fearing drift and a loss of the party's identity, called for an emergency party congress.

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