Avalanche victims were ‘rising young stars’ at MGH
They had training, experience and the right gear. Lauren Zeitels and Victor Fedorov, a pair of medical residents from Boston, had trekked on snowshoes for about 20 minutes in Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada, earlier this month, evidently seeing a beautiful frozen waterfall, Zeitels’s family said.
They had ventured just 30 yards outside of tree cover when the avalanche hit.
“It was just the wrong place at the wrong time,” Zeitels’s mother, Susan, said in a phone interview Monday. “It was just as simple as that.”
Zeitels and Fedorov, both 32, died in the avalanche, believed to have occurred on March 12. Their bodies were recovered several days later, but the Royal Canadian Mounted Police declined to identify them publicly, citing privacy laws.
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