A backcountry skier has been killed and another critically injured after they triggered an avalanche in a Colorado mountain pass, in the fourth such fatality in two days as snowslides swept across the US.
The unnamed skier's death came less than 24 hours after a snowmobiler died in Utah, a skier in Wyoming and a climber in New Hampshire.
The two men in Colorado were cross-country skiing Saturday on the western side of Cameron Pass, about 135 miles northwest of Denver, when they were buried in the avalanche, said Kent Minor, manager of State Forest State Park.
'There were two sets of ski tracks going in, so the assumption is they caused the avalanche,' Minor said, adding that the slab of snow and ice that broke loose was a quarter-mile wide and 300 to 400 yards long.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2287992/Four-die-days-string-deadly-avalanches-sweep-US.html
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