Replying to more skiers die in bc avalanche

Two Wash. skiers killed in B.C. avalanche
03/18/2003

Associated Press


NELSON, British Columbia - An avalanche in the Grizzly Bowl area of Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park in southeast British Columbia rolled over four skiers, killing two of them Monday afternoon.

Early reports suggested that the dead skiers were two men from the Seattle-area.

The wall of snow in buried the two skiers who had hiked into the area with two others to ski out. Canadian authorities scrambled to reach the buried skiers, but it was too late. Both men were dead when B.C. Parks and police rescuers reached them, the RCMP said in a statement.


The victims were not identified except as “residents of the USA.” Police said relatives were being contacted.

Eighteen people have now been killed in B.C. avalanches this winter, including 14 in the Revelstoke region, about 90 miles north of Nelson.

Seven teens from Calgary were killed in Glacier Park on Feb. 1, and seven skiers and snowboarders were killed in the back country north of Revelstoke on Jan. 20.





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