Another snowmobiler dies in B.C. avalanche

One person died Saturday after six snowmobilers were hit byan avalanche in northeastern B.C., the RCMP reported.

The death tollas a result ofavalanches in B.C. has risen to 15 this winter.

In the latest incident,aman whose name has not been releasedwas buried by a slide at about2:30 p.m. PT on Babcock Mountain in Tumbler Ridge,about 60 kilometres west of the Alberta border.

The other five members of the group were not buried bythe slide, police said in a release, and they locatedtheone victimafter other snowmobilershelped in the search.

This incident comes just one day after a 33-year-old snowmobiler from Edmonton was killed in an avalanche in the B.C. Interior.

On Jan. 12, twosnowmobilers were killed in separate avalanches, one in southwestern B.C. and the other in thesouthern Interior.

One man injured in a B.C. avalanche died in a Washington state hospital earlier this month. He was caught in an avalanche while helicopter snowboarding on Alice Mountain near Terrace.

Two men died in separate avalanches while skiing or snowboarding in closed areas of the Whistler Blackcomb Ski Resort on Dec. 31 and Jan 1.

In the worst event,eight men from Sparwood were killed in a series of avalanches while snowmobiling near Fernie on Dec. 28.