1 dead following avalanche near B.C.- Alaska border<\/p>\n
Published 2:30 pm Monday, March 23, 2026<\/p>\n
One person is dead following an avalanche in a remote area near the Klehini River, Pleasant Camp, close to the B.C.\/U.S. border.<\/p>\n
RCMP received a Garmin SOS alert on March 22 at about 3:26 p.m., approximately 500 km from Atlin.<\/p>\n
Information indicated that an avalanche had taken place, and one person was unconscious and CPR was underway.<\/p>\n
RCMP coordinated with Atlin Search and Rescue (SAR) to plan an extraction.<\/p>\n
\u201cDue to the remote location, a helicopter was utilized to access the area. Upon arrival, responders confirmed that one person was deceased,\u201d stated Sgt. Vanessa Munn.<\/p>\n
Five individuals were extracted in total from the area, with four uninjured.<\/p>\n
The BC Coroners Service has been notified and is investigating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1 dead following avalanche near B.C.- Alaska border Published 2:30 pm Monday, March 23, 2026 One person is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-557287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557287","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=557287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}