Toronto woman dies after falling into deep snow at Sunshine Village
Global News
The 47-year-old Toronto woman was skiing at Sunshine on Dec. 27 when she fell off of the side of a green run and into a deep area of snow at the resort in Banff National Park.
A woman from Ontario died after falling into an area of deep snow while going down a run at Sunshine Village in Alberta’s Rocky Mountains.
It happened around 3 p.m. Saturday at the ski resort in Banff National Park.
The 47-year-old Toronto woman was skiing when she fell off of the side of the green-level ski-out run called Banff Avenue and into deep area called a snow immersion, Sunshine Village spokesperson Kendra Scurfield confirmed.
“Our snow safety patrol medic team was alerted to an incident on Upper Banff Avenue, which is a green run off of the Wolverine Express chair, to a woman who had fallen off of Banff Avenue,” Scurfield said.
The snow patrol got there within three minutes of being notified a woman was down and arrived to find her unconscious.
“She was unresponsive at the scene. They did spend over two hours doing CPR and basically emergency medicine on the side of the run with hopes to revitalize her.”
Emergency crews, including a STARS air ambulance team out of Calgary, responded to the ski hill on Saturday afternoon.
Scurfield said the trauma team was prepared to airlift the woman to Calgary, but she was declared dead on scene and STARS was sent back to its base without transporting any patients.
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