Doctor Killed in Avalanche Caused by Girlfriend
A seasoned backcountry skier lost his life in an avalanche on an Idaho mountain last Friday. The avalanche was inadvertently set off by his girlfriend, as per a preliminary report from the Sawtooth Avalanche Center. Despite her frantic efforts to dig him out from under five feet of compacted snow, he did not survive the incident. The couple, both adept backcountry skiers, were navigating their way down Donaldson Peak in Idaho’s Lost River Range when …