{"id":507249,"date":"2026-03-01T11:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T11:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/507249\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T11:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T11:26:12","slug":"calgary-teen-skier-dead-after-avalanche-in-kananaskis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/507249\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary teen skier dead after Avalanche in Kananaskis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/nakiskaolympicchairridejpg.webp.webp\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A 15-year-old skier has died after an avalanche buried him under snow in southern Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>Cochrane RCMP say they responded to a call for two people missing after an avalanche near the Nakiska ski hill, located west of Calgary in the Kananaskis Country, just before 1 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Police say one person later escaped the snow while a Calgary teen remained missing.<\/p>\n<p>He was eventually found unconscious and taken to hospital, where he died Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>RCMP say multiple resources were deployed in the search for the teenThis is the fifth avalanche-related fatality in western Canada this season, with four of them happening within the last 11 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old skier has died after an avalanche buried him under snow in southern Alberta. Cochrane RCMP say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[901,49,2798,48,4398,32918,5593],"class_list":["post-507249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-alberta","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada","tag-country-music","tag-indigenous","tag-south"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507249","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=507249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}