GENEVA - A search for the final missing member of a group of six skiers trapped last weekend on a Swiss mountain has been called off, police from the canton of Valais said on Thursday.

A search party had already recovered the bodies of five of the people who were caught in severe weather on the 3,710 metre-high Tete Blanche mountain on Saturday on the Zermatt-Arolla path. All five were members of the same family.