At least seven people died in sports accidents in the mountains in Switzerland and Bavaria.
In Garmisch-Partenkirchen, emergency services found a dead couple from Saxony-Anhalt.
The fifty-five-year-old and her 60-year-old husband fell on a snowy stretch of road, police said on Sunday.
The landlady of her holiday apartment reported the vacationers as missing on Saturday, and they probably left for their tour on Wednesday.
According to the police, the vacationers wore sneakers and were not equipped for such a tour.
In the Bavarian part of the Karwendel Mountains, a twenty-seven-year-old had a fatal accident while hiking.
The man was alone on Thursday in the direction of the western Karwendelspitze, as the police announced on Saturday.
On snow-covered ground, the hiker fell above the Mittenwalder Hütte over steep rocky terrain.
He sustained fatal injuries.
On Holy Saturday, three ski tourers fell into a crevasse in the Aletsch region in the Swiss canton of Valais.
According to the police, a woman died, a man was seriously injured and another slightly injured.
Five people were in two rope teams in the glacier region.
At an altitude of 3,600 meters, the snow cover collapsed beneath them.
The group of two fell 25 meters deep into a crevasse.
One man from the group of three also fell, but his companions were able to arrest the fall.
Mountain rescuers could only save a 28-year-old Swiss woman dead.
The injured are a 27 and a 28-year-old Swiss.
In Graubünden and Ticino
In the canton of Graubünden in south-eastern Switzerland, two Swiss tourers got caught in an avalanche.
The man (34) and the woman (22) climbed the almost 3000 meter high Piz Tomül on skis on Good Friday.
At noon, other ski tourers saw them on the summit, the police reported.
When relatives heard nothing from them on Saturday, they alerted the rescue team.
During a search flight, rescuers discovered signals from avalanche search devices from an avalanche cone at an altitude of around 2050 meters, the police reported.
The two could only be recovered dead.
In the canton of Ticino, a 27-year-old from the Netherlands got stuck in a pool of water while abseiling on Good Friday during a canyoning trip.
The climbing partner brought the man to shore and rescuers were able to revive him, but he later died in hospital, police said.
The accident happened in a ravine around 26 kilometers northwest of Locarno.
In canyoning, athletes move through gorges by climbing, abseiling and sometimes swimming.
The police were initially unable to say what led to the accident.