Top Climber Killed in Mont. Avalanche

Guy Lacelle dies during climbing competition
By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff
Posted Dec 11, 2009 3:00 AM CST
Top Climber Killed in Mont. Avalanche
"Guy would have wanted us to climb and be thankful for another day in the hills," the organizer of the Bozeman Ice Festival said.   (Arcteryx)

Canadian champion climber Guy Lacelle died yesterday after an avalanche swept him off a mountain in Montana during a climbing competition. Lacelle, considered one of the world's leading ice climbers, was ascending a gully when the team above him triggered the avalanche, authorities say. His body was retrieved by a search and rescue team. Lacelle, 54, was "a fanatical ice climber" and his death is a "huge, huge loss," the director of a climbing equipment firm tells AP. (More Guy Lacelle stories.)

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