An ice climber is dead after an avalanche in Kananaskis Country on Saturday.
In a Sunday evening release, Stoney Nakota/Kananaskis RCMP said it received reports of an avalanche in Peter Lougheed Provincial Park that buried two people. Rescuers located a 26-year-old woman but the man she was with was not located.
The climbers were reportedly starting their descent on foot from the base of the Lone Ranger ice climb when a wind slab avalanche hit them from above, sweeping the pair into a gully on the slope below.
The body of the 29-year-old from Squamish, B.C. was located under the snow and taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, RCMP said.
Avalanche Canada said the avalanche was one of many in the area on Saturday and warned that similar events will be possible Monday afternoon.
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