{"id":36116,"date":"2021-02-01T16:49:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T21:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=36116"},"modified":"2021-02-02T10:47:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T15:47:53","slug":"woman-survives-avalanche-on-vancouver-island-thanks-to-well-prepared-companions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/woman-survives-avalanche-on-vancouver-island-thanks-to-well-prepared-companions\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman survives avalanche on Vancouver Island thanks to well-prepared companions"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<div class=\"formatted_content\">The head of Comox Valley Search and Rescue says an injured skier survived an avalanche near Mount Cameron yesterday because she was with a group that was well-prepared and educated in avalanche safety.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"formatted_content\">A group of experienced back country skiers triggered the avalanche at 2 p.m. yesterday afternoon. The slide carried two of them almost 200 m down a slope. One was buried nearly 1.5 m under the debris. The second skier skidded along the slide\u2019s surface and was able to locate and free the injured woman within five minutes.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"formatted_content\">Paul Berry says the rescue demonstrates why those venturing out in the back country need to be fully prepared:<\/div>\n<div class=\"formatted_content\">\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-36116-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/clip-BERRY-avalanche-rescue.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/clip-BERRY-avalanche-rescue.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/clip-BERRY-avalanche-rescue.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Members of Comox Valley Search and Rescue assisted in airlifting the injured woman to hospital in Vancouver. She suffered multiple fractures of her legs, a dislocated shoulder and cuts and bruises. The avalanche danger remains high on Vancouver Island from alpine areas to below the tree line.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"push--top u-hide-on-template\">\n<div class=\"boosts metadata avatar-group--tiny push--bottom \" style=\"max-width: 100%; font-size: 0.8em; margin-bottom: 1.25em !important; background: #faf8f7; padding: 0.5rem; border-radius: 2.5rem;\" data-controller=\"boosts\" data-action=\"keydown-&gt;boosts#toggleFormOnEscOrEnter\" data-boosts-adding-class=\"boosts--adding\" data-boosts-deleting-class=\"boost--deleting\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of Comox Valley Search and Rescue says an injured skier survived an avalanche near Mount Cameron yesterday because she was with a group that was well-prepared and educated in avalanche safety. A group of experienced back country skiers triggered the avalanche at 2 p.m. yesterday afternoon. The slide carried two of them almost&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":36120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,222,204],"tags":[4628,5599,4630,3461],"radio":[240],"origine":[280,265,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36116"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=36116"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=36116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}