Three of the best mountaineers in the world have disappeared after an avalanche of deaths – 18/04/2019

Austrian mountaineers David Lama, Hansjörg Auer and American Jess Roskelly are missing in Canada and presumably dead after an avalanche in the Canadian Rockies, when they climbed Howse Peak.

Parks Canada, the public agency responsible for Banff National Park, where Howse Peak is located, informed EFE that "after the badessment of the situation, it is badumed that the three members of the group are dead"

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On Wednesday, after receiving no news from the three mountaineers, considered among the best in the world and planning to attack the eastern face of Howse Peak, his team flew over the area and found signs of several avalanches and remains of climbing equipment ".

"Parks Canada extends its sincere condolences to the families, friends and loved ones of the three mountaineers," the statement added.

At this time, Canadian authorities can not recover the remains "due to new avalanches and dangerous conditions in the region", because of high winds and precipitation that increases the risk of further avalanches.

Local media announced in the early hours of Thursday the disappearance of three mountaineers after an avalanche in Howse Peak, a mountain of 3395 meters considered one of the most difficult of the Canadian Rockies.

The American newspaper "The Spokesman Review" noted that Roskelley, 36, had told his father, Mountaineer John Roskelley, that he would contact him Tuesday, but that the communication had not happened. produced.

John Roskelley contacted Canadian authorities flying over the area by helicopter and reported signs of avalanche and at least one partially buried body.

Roskelley told the newspaper that his son and Austrian alpinists Lama, 35, and Auer, 28, "they are dead. They do not miss"

The road used by the three mountaineers to attack Howse Peak was only opened in 1999 because of its difficulty.