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Two French nationals killed in latest B.C. avalanche

Gigantic Class 4 avalanche that killed Calgary man on Eagle's Pass. RCMP photo.

VALEMOUNT – A heli-skiing trip turned deadly for two French nationals when a massive avalanche buried a total of three people in Wells Gray Provincial Park. The avalanche was triggered when a commercially licenced heli-ski operator took a group of ten skiers and two guides on a run in the Azure River Drainage area of [...]

March 21st, 2010 | Posted in B.C.,Featured | Read More »

Avalanche: Cops had set up air hangar morgue

RCMP photo of massive avalanche on Boulder Mountain.

REVELSTOKE – Police say they set up a large temporary morgue fearing they would find multiple people dead in the massive avalanche that came down on Boulder Mountain while 200 were watching snowmobile stunts. Cops made the revelation of how they prepared for the worst as ten investigators began to probe whether the organizers of [...]

March 16th, 2010 | Posted in B.C. | Read More »

Alberta snowmobiler dies, three lucky to survive B.C. avalanche

Cpl. Dan Moskaluk - three lucky to be alive.

TRAIL, B.C. – (Update) An Alberta man has died and three others are lucky to be alive after an avalanche swept down the side of a mountain while the group was snowmobiling

January 4th, 2010 | Posted in B.C.,Featured | Read More »