Snowmobilers survive Frisby Ridge avalanche BCLocalNews

24.11.09

Kerry Cooper was entering a phantasmagorical state. Buried over his head by a series of avalanches, his brain was tricking him into thinking he was all right.

“You start to hallucinate, go in and out, and then it honourable goes to your mind, well, I’ll just go to sleep, it will be OK,” he told the Times Review. “You call to mind a consider in your head at that time it’s going to be okay, but the reality is it’s the worst possible time. You actually inadequacy to close your eyes and go to sleep.”

Cooper was anything but OK. Completely covered in snow for more than 10 minutes, he was close-knit to death.

Meanwhile, his friend Riley Tuplin was a metre away, screaming in pain as his leg was caught between a snowmobile and tree out.

Fortunately for the two of them, their two companions, Jeff Hodgson and Randy Kaup, emerged from the avalanche uncovered and were frantically working to dig them out.

Cooper and Tauplin, both from the Lloydminster, Alberta arena, and Hodgson and Kaup, both from Edmonton were out snowmobiling on Frisby Ridge just north of Revelstoke.

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