Grandson of Vail ski resort founder killed in avalanche
- 9 years ago
Originally published on January 8, 2014
The grandson of Colorado ski resort co-founder Peter Seibert was killed in a Vail avalanche that also trapped and injured three other people on Tuesday (January 7) morning.
Anthony Seibert, 24, and three companions were buried in an avalanche at East Vail Chutes outside the ski limits of the Vail Mountain resort. Seibert was killed, while the other three were dug out and treated for minor injuries.
The tumble occurred near the tree line "in backcountry wilderness where they do not have avalanche control," Ethan Greene of the state-run Colorado Avalanche Information Center said in a CNN report.
"This [avalanche] was most likely triggered by the people who got caught in it," Greene said.
According to Jessie Mosher of the Eagle County Sheriff's Office, two in the group were on skis and the other two were on snowboards.
Fresh snowfall over the weekend was shaped into slabs by wind. These dense layers were packed on top of brittle layers of earlier snowfall, which are prone to breakages, contributing to avalanche, Spencer Logan of the Colorado Avalanche Information Center said in a CBS4 report.
This is the fifth avalanche-related death reported in Colorado, Montana and Wyoming and the second in Colorado in the past two weeks.
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The grandson of Colorado ski resort co-founder Peter Seibert was killed in a Vail avalanche that also trapped and injured three other people on Tuesday (January 7) morning.
Anthony Seibert, 24, and three companions were buried in an avalanche at East Vail Chutes outside the ski limits of the Vail Mountain resort. Seibert was killed, while the other three were dug out and treated for minor injuries.
The tumble occurred near the tree line "in backcountry wilderness where they do not have avalanche control," Ethan Greene of the state-run Colorado Avalanche Information Center said in a CNN report.
"This [avalanche] was most likely triggered by the people who got caught in it," Greene said.
According to Jessie Mosher of the Eagle County Sheriff's Office, two in the group were on skis and the other two were on snowboards.
Fresh snowfall over the weekend was shaped into slabs by wind. These dense layers were packed on top of brittle layers of earlier snowfall, which are prone to breakages, contributing to avalanche, Spencer Logan of the Colorado Avalanche Information Center said in a CBS4 report.
This is the fifth avalanche-related death reported in Colorado, Montana and Wyoming and the second in Colorado in the past two weeks.
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