{"id":504387,"date":"2026-02-28T03:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/504387\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T03:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:06:17","slug":"2-skiers-caught-in-avalanche-in-nakiska-area-1-unresponsive-rcmp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/504387\/","title":{"rendered":"2 skiers caught in avalanche in Nakiska area, 1 unresponsive: RCMP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>A skier is unresponsive after being rescued and transported to the Alberta Children&#8217;s Hospital in life-threatening condition following reports of an avalanche west of Calgary, Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Cochrane RCMP and other emergency services responded to a call from the Nakiska ski hill around 12:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>According to an initial RCMP report, two skiers were swept up in the avalanche and buried, but one was able to dig themselves out of the snow uninjured.<\/p>\n<p>The other skier was eventually located unresponsive by first responders before being transported to the Calgary hospital by ground ambulance. Calgary EMS said the person taken to hospital is a youth.<\/p>\n<p>A Nakiska spokesperson said in a statement to CBC News, &#8220;Our hearts are with the family and friends of the individual. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are sending our deepest care to the family dealing with this horrible situation. In these difficult times, our entire mountain community shares in your grief and sorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-504387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504387","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=504387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}