One of the two victims killed in a rockslide on a hiking trail in Banff has been identified as a retired University of Alberta professor.
The incident happened on June 19 around 1 p.m. on the Bow Glacier Falls hiking trail, according to Parks Canada officials, who said that emergency crews, including RCMP, responded to the area. The trail is a 9-kilometre or 6-mile route along the Bow Lake.
The site is north of Lake Louise on the Icefields Parkway. It’s about 200 kilometres northwest of Calgary.
At the time, RCMP confirmed that one person had been found deceased at the scene, two others were airlifted to hospital, and one was taken to hospital by ambulance, François Masse said during a June 20 joint news conference….