LOCAL VALDEZ LEGEND MIKE HAMILTON KILLED FROM TRAUMA SUSTAINED IN AVALANCHE
SNOWBRAINS MAGAZINE – A sad day for Alaska’s heliskiing world: one of its legends, Mike Hamilton, 46, was the victim of a fatal avalanche on Monday, April 25, in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains. Details are currently limited, however, we know from the Valdez Avalanche Center that an avalanche occurred at approximately 5,800′ on a northwest aspect in the Pencil Glacier region, 35 miles south of Valdez, in which Hamilton triggered a storm slab avalanche near a ridgeline that carried him over cliffs. He did not survive his injuries.
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