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A snowmobiler has been killed in an avalanche near Merritt, B.C., the third snowmobiler to die in the province this week.
The man went missing after a group of 12 snowmobilers were caught up in the avalanche around noon local time Tuesday on the south side of Coquihalla Lake, near the old highway toll booth.
Search and rescue crews were called in. The man's body was located, but conditions were too dangerous to recover it. Crews will head back up the mountain on Wednesday.
The man's name has not yet been released. It is not known what caused the avalanche.
Two other snowmobilers also died in separate accidents in B.C. in recent days.
In one accident in Elko, west of Fernie, an unidentified 44-year-old man was killed when his sled went off an embankment and struck a BMX ramp on Monday.
In the second accident near Prince George on Sunday, another 44-year-old man was killed after running head-on into another snowmobile in the dark, while the pair were out sledding on a lake.
The man went missing after a group of 12 snowmobilers were caught up in the avalanche around noon local time Tuesday on the south side of Coquihalla Lake, near the old highway toll booth.
Search and rescue crews were called in. The man's body was located, but conditions were too dangerous to recover it. Crews will head back up the mountain on Wednesday.
The man's name has not yet been released. It is not known what caused the avalanche.
Two other snowmobilers also died in separate accidents in B.C. in recent days.
In one accident in Elko, west of Fernie, an unidentified 44-year-old man was killed when his sled went off an embankment and struck a BMX ramp on Monday.
In the second accident near Prince George on Sunday, another 44-year-old man was killed after running head-on into another snowmobile in the dark, while the pair were out sledding on a lake.
