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Mountaineers, Found Completely Covered With Snow

TUESDAY, 23 JANUARY 2007

Bodies of aspiring mountaineers were found at the snow cave in Yoho National Park in the B.C. Rockies. The two who were on a month long backcountry trek in the Rockies were completely covered with snow.

Twenty seven year old Claire Dixon of Kamloops and Cornelius (Kees) Brenninkmeyer, 25 of Toronto was found completely covered of snow which was believed to have collapsed while they were sleeping. Searchers scouring the Wapta Icefields area by helicopter found them at 2,926 meters near Mount Collie. Both had set out from a trailhead near Bow Lake for a four week ski tour. According to Banff National Park public-safety warden Marc Ledwidge they have a hard time recovering the body because of the bad weather.

Dixon's main love is mountaineering and she likes to backcountry ski a lot according to his uncle, Craig Stout. On the other hand Brenninkmeyer worked for a heli-skiing operation in Alaska last winter and was studying mountain rescue, avalanche conditions, survival and first-aid. Both met in 2004 during a mountain adventure in Denali National Park in Alaska.

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