Some of the victims had been wearing backpacks equipped with airbags that can help keep people on the surface of an avalanche, but had not pulled the cords to deploy the bags, the report said.
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Ethan Baron,
Mercury News,
4 Apr. 2026
Peter Barnum, one of the people on shore who raced to the rescue, described the exhaustion of one of the victims, the father.
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