A Toronto woman died while skiing at Banff Sunshine Village in Alberta on Saturday, and is being remembered as a kind soul who leaves behind a son.<\/p>\n
It was around 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon when skiers on the hill alerted staff about a woman falling off the Banff Avenue ski area into some deep snow.<\/p>\n
Sunshine spokesperson Kendra Scurfield says their patrol team was on scene in three minutes, but the woman was unresponsive and died on scene.<\/p>\n
Scurfield says it was what\u2019s called a deep snow immersion, when someone falls into deep, loose snow and can\u2019t free themselves.<\/p>\n
A family member identified the woman as 47-year-old Farah Merchant from Toronto, saying she would be deeply missed.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was a loving and devoted mother to her son, Liam, a cherished daughter, sister, aunt, cousin, friend, etc. She had a kind soul and touched so many lives with her love, warmth, and compassion. She will be deeply missed by all who knew her,\u201d a post by Faiz Merchant reads.<\/p>\n
Scurfield says situations like this aren\u2019t common, and they hit their team pretty hard.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt this point in time, our thoughts and prayers are with the family and her friends, in what we are sure is a very difficult time for them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
It has been the fourth snowiest month in Sunshine Village\u2019s 100-year history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Toronto woman died while skiing at Banff Sunshine Village in Alberta on Saturday, and is being remembered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-376384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}