Prince George, B.C. – The BC Coroners Service has released the name of a man who died in an avalanche near Revelstoke last Saturday.

36-year-old Christopher Shane McCoy was from Sylvan Lake, Alberta, about 25 km west of Red Deer.

McCoy, an experienced snowmobiler, was in a group of four people who went snowmobiling in an area known as Boulder Creek, about eight kilometres from Revelstoke. Shortly after 2 Saturday an avalanche struck, burying two members of the group.  The other two members were able to find and dig out the two who had been hit. The second man was not seriously injured, but McCoy was unresponsive when he was found, and could not be resuscitated.  The BC Coroners Service and RCMP continue to investigate this death.

The BC Coroners Service notes that the Canadian Avalanche Centre continues to list the avalanche risk as "considerable" to "high" in many parts of the province and urges all backcountry users to take extreme care, including checking the Canadian Avalanche Centre webpage for current conditions in B.C.