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Vancouver/CMEDIA: More details about the deadly avalanche have been released by Avalanche Canada that killed three German citizens in southeastern British Columbia last week.
It says in an incident report that nine heli-skiers and one guide on a run called “Too bad about the skiing.” about 30 kilometres southwest of Invermere, B.C., in the Coppercrown Mountain region
As reported by the organization the entire group was swept into the sparse forested area next to the larger avalanche path burying two guests and their death on scene while the guide and three others were partially buried and critically injured, and another sustained non-critical injuries.
All the injured skiers were airlifted to the Invermere Hospital where one of them died, Avalanche Canada said ,.
Describing the March 1 avalanche as a class 3, meaning it was large enough to destroy a building and break trees, the organization report said the avalanche was 300 metres in width and 75 centimetres thick.
Last week, the German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur was reported saying that the mayor of the municipality of Eging, east of Munich, Walter Bauer confirmed the three men were from Germany and two were residents of his small Bavarian town, and the other man was from Munich.
An extremely unstable snowpack across most of B.C. this season, warned Avalanche Canada, which caused death of twelve people in six separate avalanches across the province in 2023.
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