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Woman Dies In Skiing Incident After Falling In Tree Well At Whistler Blackcomb

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 16 Mar, 2016 10:51 AM
    WHISTLER, B.C. — A woman has died while skiing on a mountain near Whistler, B.C.
     
    RCMP say the woman was with her husband in the Seventh Heaven area of Blackcomb Mountain on Tuesday morning when they became separated in a treed area.
     
    Mounties say she was reported missing and a search was launched.
     
    A member of the public found the woman in a tree well, unresponsive.
     
     
    Blackcomb ski patrol, a mountain doctor, a paramedic and a nurse practitioner all tried to revive the woman, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.
     
    No details have been released about the woman's identity.

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