A 37-year-old man was killed an avalanche In the backcountry of Utah during the snowmobile on Monday, the authorities said.
Scott Wright, Van Evanston, Wyoming, was snowmobile with a friend in the Monte Cristo Snowmobile area nearby Rich County Sheriff’s Office said.
Wright “was trapped, worn and fully buried in a large hard plate Avalanche” in the Whiskey Hill-Beer Hill area of ​​Curtis Creek, said the Utah Avalanche Center.
The friend tried to look for Wright, but there was no avalan -transceiver signal, the center said. Not able to find his buried friend, Wright’s friend called 911 for help.
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A 37-year-old snowmobile was killed in an avalanche that took place in the Utah backcountry on Monday. (Utah Department of Public Safety)
Rich County Search and Rescue launched the effort to find Wright just after 3 p.m.
The 37-year-old was caught, worn and buried in the slide, said civil servants. The man’s friend could not find him and called 911 for help. (Utah Avalanche Center)
Civil servants said the deep snow on the Avalanche site prevents rescuers from finding Wright for almost four hours. Search teams eventually recovered the body of Wright just before 6.30 pm
It was unclear how the avalanche was activated.
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Dave Sparks, whose team at Sparks Heavy Rescue helped in the search, said Fox13 Salt Lake City That the way the slide fell made efforts “extremely complicated”.
What the avalanche has activated remains unclear. (Utah Avalanche Center)
“This was difficult because the slide was really very big. It was one of the bigger ones I saw,” said Sparks. “There were snow plates that were five feet thick and 12 feet long – only sample plates of snow.”
Sparks said that although the hinterland can be tempting for many, it is also ‘unpredictable’.
“This year it is terrible snow, some of the worst snow I’ve ever seen,” he said.
Earlier Monday, a snowboarder in Little Cottonwood Canyon suffered slight injuries after he had been imprisoned in a separate avalanche, the outlet reported.
The death of Wright marked the first avalanche dodality in Utah this year, according to the Utah Avalanche Center. Avalials resulted in four fatalities last year, while 2023 saw three dead.
