Danish tourist falls to death during B.C. hike with other students
KELOWNA, B.C. – The BC Coroners Service has identified a 20-year-old Danish tourist who died in a climbing accident in the central Interior.
Mia Norgaard Langhoff was with about 20 people from an outdoor adventure school in Denmark, and they’d travelled to Canada to mark the end of their course.
The service says the group camped at Clearwater Lake last Friday and went on a hike on Huntley Col Mountain, where they ascended a steep, grassy slope covered with fresh snow.
The resident of Kolding, Denmark, slipped and lost her balance, sliding more than 30 metres over an embankment.
The coroners service says one of the instructors hiked and canoed out to get help, a trip of about seven hours.
A military search-and-rescue helicopter was dispatched from CFB Comox, but by the time it arrived, Langhoff had died.
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