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One dead in avalanche near Valemount, B.C.
BY STAFF REPORTER, THE PROVINCEAPRIL 11, 2009 11:01 AM
A 24-year-old snowmobiler was killed in an avalanche outside Valemount Friday afternoon.
Valemount RCMP got a report just before 3 p.m. that a group of snowmobilers had triggered an avalanche in the Monashee Mountains, near the Clemina Creek snowmobiling area.
Details are still emerging, but RCMP said in a statement that the group were taking turns riding up a slope when one of them was buried. Other snowmobilers were able to dig the victim out, but efforts to revive him were unsuccessful.
The victim was from Sherwood Park, Alta. Details of his identity will be released once next-of-kin have been notified.
The accident brings the death toll of snowmobilers killed in avalanches this winter to 18.
BY STAFF REPORTER, THE PROVINCEAPRIL 11, 2009 11:01 AM
A 24-year-old snowmobiler was killed in an avalanche outside Valemount Friday afternoon.
Valemount RCMP got a report just before 3 p.m. that a group of snowmobilers had triggered an avalanche in the Monashee Mountains, near the Clemina Creek snowmobiling area.
Details are still emerging, but RCMP said in a statement that the group were taking turns riding up a slope when one of them was buried. Other snowmobilers were able to dig the victim out, but efforts to revive him were unsuccessful.
The victim was from Sherwood Park, Alta. Details of his identity will be released once next-of-kin have been notified.
The accident brings the death toll of snowmobilers killed in avalanches this winter to 18.