The details of the deaths of the three mountaineers in Canada – ElSol.com.ar – Diario de Mendoza, Argentina

Canadian authorities announced Monday that Austrian climbers David Lama and Hansjörg Auer and American Jess Roskelly had died on April 16 after reaching the summit of Howse Peak in the west of the country.

Parks Canada spokespersons revealed at a press conference that Lama, 35; Auer, 28, and Roskelley, 36, They died when an avalanche reached them while they were coming down from the mountain on the east side.

The three mountaineers, considered among the best in the world, had begun the same day the attack on the eastern face of Howse Peak, considered one of the most difficult and technical mountains of the Canadian Rockies.

The track on the eastern face of Howse Peak, which rises to 3,395 meters above sea level, was opened only in 1999. The bodies of the three mountaineers were found Sunday at the foot of the face. is from the mountains, explained the Canadian authorities.

The recovery work of the three mountaineers, to which 12 people participated, They were hampered by weather conditions and by the fact that none of the mountaineers carried avalanche beacons.

The authorities also pointed out that despite the experience of the three mountaineers, the avalanche, because of its characteristics, He made his survival impossible.

This season, six people, including Lama, Auer and Roskelly, have died as a result of avalanches in Banff and Yoho National Parks, where the Howse Peak is located.

The first sign that the three mountaineers suffered an accident occurred last Tuesday when the group did not contact Roskelly's fatherMountaineer John Roskelley.

On Wednesday, John Roskelly informed Parks Canada that his son had not communicated after the start of the climb as planned. For this reason, a helicopter was sent to the mountain, which is in a difficult place, and his staff saw traces of avalanches and mountaineering equipment scattered across the eastern face of Howse Peak.

Speaking Thursday in the American newspaper The Spokesman Review, John Roskelly added that rescue teams had also discovered a body, but Parks Canada refused to confirm it. "They are dead, they are not missing," said John Roskelley about his son, Lama and Auer.