Bad weather and high avalanche risk are keeping crews from resuming the search for a man who has been trapped in a glacier near Lake Louise, Alta. for six days.
Three skiers from British Columbia, two men and one woman, were skiing Wednesday on the Wapta Traverse, in the Wapituk range of the Rockies, when one of the men fell into a crevasse.
The other two skiers activated emergency beacons and were rescued on Friday.
As soon as there is a prolonged break in the conditions rescuers will return to the glacier and resume rescue efforts, said Parks Canada spokesperson Omar McDadi.
"We definitely don't want to put the visitor safety crew and the rescue team in danger. And so that's a very high consideration," he said.
"But we're also giving it our very, very best efforts in so much as it's safe to do, to try and get back there and to try to get access to the crevasse."
The skiers were at an elevation of about 2,600 metres when the man fell.
An alpine rescue helicopter was able to touch down on the glacier late Sunday afternoon, but crews were unable to reach the mouth of the crevasse, McDadi said.
The missing skier was also wearing an emergency beacon when he fell and at one point it was transmitting a signal showing it was 35 metres below the surface of the icefield.
McDadi said many variables are working against the crew.
"This area is found at very high elevation in a very difficult to access terrain. We've had little cooperation with the weather. And the avalanche danger rating has been high throughout most of this time period so it's made for a very difficult rescue operation," he said.
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