{"id":510990,"date":"2026-03-03T05:58:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T05:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/510990\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T05:58:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T05:58:42","slug":"skier-killed-in-avalanche-identified-as-calgary-high-school-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/510990\/","title":{"rendered":"Skier killed in avalanche identified as Calgary high school student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Calgary high school is mourning the loss of one of its students who <a href=\"https:\/\/calgary.citynews.ca\/2026\/02\/27\/nakiska-avalanche-youth-to-hospital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">died after being caught in an avalanche<\/a> at the Nakiska Ski Resort late last week.<\/p>\n<p>Students and staff at Queen Elizabeth High School were somber Monday as the Calgary Board of Education confirmed 15-year-old Emilio Hrazdira was the teen killed in Friday\u2019s slide. <\/p>\n<p>RCMP said two skiers were buried in the avalanche just before 1 p.m. Friday. One managed to dig themselves out, while first responders pulled Hrazdira out unconscious. <\/p>\n<p>He later died in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Hrazdira was a competitive skier and a member of the Lake Louise Ski Club. In a statement, the club\u2019s president called his death \u201ca devastating loss for the family, our ski club and the broader ski racing and freeride community.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Friends have been posting tributes on social media, remembering him as a passionate skier who loved to make people laugh.<\/p>\n<p>According to Avalanche Canada, the slide was triggered by a group of two who were bootpacking up a slope. <\/p>\n<p>RCMP initially reported the skiers were within resort boundaries but later said that, because no criminal investigation is underway, they would not be providing further updates.<\/p>\n<p>Resorts of the Canadian Rockies, which owns Nakiska, did not clarify where the avalanche occurred. The company said it is conducting a full investigation and will release more information when available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Calgary high school is mourning the loss of one of its students who died after being caught&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-510990","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\/510990","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=510990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}