Another snowmobiler dies in B.C. avalanche
Death toll in avalanches in this province this winter reaches 15
Last Updated: Sunday, January 18, 2009 | 12:45 PM PT
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One person died Saturday after six snowmobilers were hit by an avalanche in northeastern B.C., the RCMP reported.
The death toll as a result of avalanches in B.C. has risen to 15 this winter.
In the latest incident, a man whose name has not been released was buried by a slide at about 2:30 p.m. PT on Babcock Mountain in Tumbler Ridge, about 60 kilometres west of the Alberta border.
The other five members of the group were not buried by the slide, police said in a release, and they located the one victim after other snowmobilers helped in the search.
This incident comes just one day after a 33-year-old snowmobiler from Edmonton was killed in an avalanche in the B.C. Interior.
On Jan. 12, two snowmobilers were killed in separate avalanches, one in southwestern B.C. and the other in the southern Interior.
One man injured in a B.C. avalanche died in a Washington state hospital earlier this month. He was caught in an avalanche while helicopter snowboarding on Alice Mountain near Terrace.
Two men died in separate avalanches while skiing or snowboarding in closed areas of the Whistler Blackcomb Ski Resort on Dec. 31 and Jan 1.
In the worst event, eight men from Sparwood were killed in a series of avalanches while snowmobiling near Fernie on Dec. 28.
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