Daniel James Hedlund, 30, of New Zealand died January 9, 2008 in an avalanche at Tignes in the French Alps. Hedlund was living in France and on his day off from his job as chef at the Alpaka Hotel when he got caught in a slide.
He went snowboarding with two friends. He jumped off a small cliff, and was was buried under about 1.5m of snow by an avalanche. . . One of the men he was with tried to dig him out with a shovel, while the other went to get help. . . ski patrol used a heart defibrillator on Mr Hedlund, but could not revive him. . . A doctor was flown to the scene by helicopter but Mr Hedlund died 45 minutes later.
According to police, the group was properly equipped with beacons and shovels.
[Link: New Zealand Herald]
