Police say a 19-year-old BC man was killed over the weekend in an avalanche in Kananaskis Country near Canmore.
Canmore RCMP said that members received a report of an avalanche east of the Mount Engadine Lodge on Tower Peak in Kananaskis just before 8:30 pm on Sunday.
An investigation revealed that two men were skiing in the backcountry when an avalanche occurred at approximately 1 pm. One of the men was able to escape by digging himself out of the snow. The second man, however, was buried.
At 9:45 this morning, Canmore RCMP — with the assistance of Kananaskis Mountain Rescue — recovered the body of the missing man, who has been identified as a 19-year-old from Kelowna, BC.
Kananaskis Mountain Rescue recommends checking the Avalanche Canada website avalanche.ca for weather and terrain conditions before any winter activities in the backcountry.