Two skiers have been killed following an avalanche in the mountains in the US state of Utah that occurred after several days of spring snowstorms
A rescue team responded just after 10am to an avalanche reported near Lone Peak in the Wasatch Range southeast of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera said.
One of the three skiers caught up in the avalanche was able to dig himself out of the snow, and was rescued by midday and taken to the hospital, Rivera said.A Utah Department of Public Safety helicopter carries rescuers from Hidden Valley Park during a search for the missing skiiers. Crews were unable to search for the other two because of the conditions on the mountain and needed to do mitigation work to make it safe.
Initially, authorities were unsure if the other two skiers had been buried in the slide but the sheriff has since confirmed they are dead.Officers were speaking with him at the hospital to get more information about what happened, the sheriff said.'Monster': US father jailed for life for beating five-year-old to deathCraig Gordon with the Utah Avalanche Center said about 76 centimetres of heavy, wet snow fell in the area in the past three days.
The skiers would have had to have been very experienced to even be in the "very serious terrain", he said.
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