One dead, one missing as large avalanche engulfs snowmobilers near Invermere

INVERMERE — One snowmobiler is dead and another may have been swept into a nearby lake after a group of three sledders triggered an avalanche in southeastern B.C.
A release posted by Avalanche Canada says the three were sledding Saturday on Mount Brewer in the Purcell Mountains, just west of Invermere, when two of the riders were swept away by what is described as a very large snow slide.
The release says the 200- to 400-metre wide avalanche tore away the snowpack from the surface to the g