One man is dead after he and two other skiers were caught in an avalanche in Colorado on Friday, the Gunnison County Sheriff's Office said in a statement on Sunday.
An avalanche that fell 2,400 feet down a mountainside caught Shute, another skier and a snowboarder in upper Rapid Creek, southwest of the town of Marble on Friday, authorities said.Colorado Avalanche Information CenterFirst responders were first notified of the avalanche Friday at 5:52 p.m, according to the International Emergency Response Coordination Center.
By Saturday, rescuers extradited two men who were injured in the incident for medical treatment — the skier via helicopter and the snowboarder by ambulance after he was able to work his way out of the slide area, the sheriff's office said. Then Search and Rescue teams located Shute buried about four feet deep in avalanche debris, authorities said. reported.
On Thursday, skiers triggered two"very large" avalanches in the area near Marble after 15 inches of colder storm snow capped 10 inches of very dense snow that fell during the day on Wednesday, according to a
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