A 38-year-old Calgary man is the latest person to die after several avalanches in the Rockies over the past two weekends.
Greg Di Valentin was skiing with friends in the Helen Shoulder Glades, south of Num-Ti-Jah Lodge on Highway 93, when the slide came down.
A father and a son from Montreal were also killed after being swept away by an avalanche near Lake Louise.
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The bodies of 33-year old Gabriel Mironov and his 11-year-old son Oliver were recovered Saturday, but the RCMP says that they may have been buried for almost a week.
They had not been seen since last Sunday after the pair rented a toboggan.
The Canadian Avalanche Centre had been issuing warnings since Thursday because avalanche risk in the Banff and Lake Louise area was rated between considerable and high.
The combination of wet, heavy snow and warming temperatures across the province created dangerous conditions in the mountains.
On Friday, a 36-year old man from Lloydminster died of his injuries after he was caught in an avalanche near Blue River, near Jasper.
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