VANCOUVER — Three Metro Vancouver residents have been identified by the coroners service as the victims of a deadly ice-climbing fall north of Whistler, B.C.
Coroner Barb McLintock says 35-year-old Elena Cernicka of North Vancouver and 31- and 30-year-olds Charles Mackenzie and Stephanie Grothe of Vancouver died after falling on Mount Joffre near Pemberton on Sunday.
She says Mackenzie was originally from Scotland and Grothe was from Germany.
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McLintock says the trio travelled with a group to Joffre Lakes Provincial Park Saturday and spent the night in a backcountry hut.
She says the three went ice climbing, but when they didn't return, the others in the group began a search and spotted one person deceased.
Members of Pemberton Search and Rescue found the two others on Monday morning dead, after they had apparently fallen about 600 metres down a steep-mountain gorge.