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Man dies in B.C. avalanche
John Korobanik, edmontonjournal.com
Published: 11:32 am
GOLDEN, B.C. - One man is dead but two others survived a backcountry avalanche near Golden, B.C.
Dead is 61-year-old Peter Bowle-Evans of Golden. Two other Golden men, Hugh Southee, 26, and Kyle Chartrand, 29, survived.
RCMP Cpl. Barry Kennedy said the three were backcountry skiiing about five kilometres off the top of Kicking Horse ski resort, in an out-of-bounds area called Canyon Creek, when the avalanche came down at about 2 p.m. on Wednesday.
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Bowle-Evans and Southee were caught in the avalanche. Chartrand managed to escape it. Chartrand rescued Southee and together they found and dug out Bowle-Evans, a former president of Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association of B.C.
"They performed CPR on him for about half an hour," said Kennedy, but the man died.
"The two then walked out, it took them about 10 hours. They got back about 11 p.m."
Bowle-Evans's body was recovered overnight.
Kennedy said RCMP were alerted when Bowle-Evans's son called them at 7 p.m. to say his dad hadn't returned.
It is the 11th death in an avalanche in Western Canada this winter. "We're already on pace for our world avalanche fatality year," said John Kelly of the Canadian Avalanche Centre. "And the worst is yet to come in terms of the months with the highest average number of avalanche accidents, and that's January, February and March."
Man dies in B.C. avalanche
John Korobanik, edmontonjournal.com
Published: 11:32 am
GOLDEN, B.C. - One man is dead but two others survived a backcountry avalanche near Golden, B.C.
Dead is 61-year-old Peter Bowle-Evans of Golden. Two other Golden men, Hugh Southee, 26, and Kyle Chartrand, 29, survived.
RCMP Cpl. Barry Kennedy said the three were backcountry skiiing about five kilometres off the top of Kicking Horse ski resort, in an out-of-bounds area called Canyon Creek, when the avalanche came down at about 2 p.m. on Wednesday.
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Bowle-Evans and Southee were caught in the avalanche. Chartrand managed to escape it. Chartrand rescued Southee and together they found and dug out Bowle-Evans, a former president of Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association of B.C.
"They performed CPR on him for about half an hour," said Kennedy, but the man died.
"The two then walked out, it took them about 10 hours. They got back about 11 p.m."
Bowle-Evans's body was recovered overnight.
Kennedy said RCMP were alerted when Bowle-Evans's son called them at 7 p.m. to say his dad hadn't returned.
It is the 11th death in an avalanche in Western Canada this winter. "We're already on pace for our world avalanche fatality year," said John Kelly of the Canadian Avalanche Centre. "And the worst is yet to come in terms of the months with the highest average number of avalanche accidents, and that's January, February and March."
Man dies in B.C. avalanche
