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2012 Tunnel Creek Avalanche
The 2012 Tunnel Creek Avalanche occurred on February 19, 2012, at about noon in the Tunnel Creek section of Stevens Pass, a mountain pass through the Cascade Mountains located at the border of King County and Chelan County in Washington, U.S. There were three fatalities and one injured.
==Avalanche==
The avalanche was triggered when sixteen of the nation's top free skiers and free snowboarders were making a run together. They had been gathered by Chris Rudolph, a charismatic marketing director at the attached ski resort.〔 It is unusual for so many experts to be together outside of a competition.〔 One or more of the skiers triggered the avalanche 300 feet below the top of the mountain, and it rushed down 2,650 vertical feet, carrying away five skiers. One of the skiers wedged himself between two trees and avoided being swept away as the avalanche rushed over him.〔 Another skier, Elyse Saugstad, deployed an avalanche survival airbag and suffered minor injuries, despite being trapped until her fellow skiers rescued her.〔〔 The remaining three skiers, Jim Jack, Chris Rudolph and John Brenan, were killed through a combination of blunt force trauma and asphyxia.〔〔〔
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