This story was up-to-date as of 3:57 p.m. Thursday, May 9.
Two skiers died in an avalanche near Lone Peak Summit in Little Cottonwood Canyon Thursday. The men were 23 and 32 years old, according to officials.
One man was delivered to a staging area at a park off Wasatch Boulevard by a Salt Lake County Search and Rescue volunteer on a hoist attached to a helicopter. The man, wearing a lightweight pullover and ski pants, walked to an ambulance, which left without lights or sirens.
He and the men he was skiing with are believed to have been friends, according to Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera. Avalanche danger still exists in the area where the slide occurred, she said.
The men were making the hike up to Lone Peak area from Hidden Valley Park in Draper when the avalanche hit, according to Craig Gordon, a forecaster for the Utah Avalanche Center, who was involved in the rescue operations. Gordon said he was not on scene but from pictures estimates it was at least 100 feet long and several feet deep.
Rivera said the emergency call came in around 10 a.m.
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