The Nation - News from Feb. 20, 1986
An avalanche roared onto a ski run at the Alta, Utah, resort, and killed a 16-year-old skier, the second person to die beneath tons of sliding wet snow in Utah in three days. The youth, whose name was withheld, was buried in snow for 2 1/2 hours before rescuers found him, still alive, and he was flown to LDS Hospital in nearby Salt Lake City where he died of cardiac arrest and hypothermia. The 100-foot-deep, 100-yard-wide avalanche struck in mid-afternoon and barely missed several other skiers.
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