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Christopher Rainoldi, a 33-year-old ski tourer and alpine rescue volunteer from northern Italy, died Saturday after a human-triggered avalanche swept him off Max’s Mountain in the Girdwood Valley, approximately 50 miles southeast of Anchorage, Alaska.
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Rainoldi was ascending the peak with two companions when one member of the group triggered the slide. The avalanche was large enough to carry and fully bury him. His two companions deployed their airbag backpacks and were not critically harmed. Rainoldi was unable to activate his in time.
Rescuers reached him in the field and airlifted him by helicopter to a hospital. He did not survive his injuries.
“HEADS UP Mar. 21, 2026: Dangerous Conditions in Girdwood, Turnagain, and Placer
There were multiple human-triggered avalanches in and around the Girdwood/Turnagain zone today. This includes an incident on Max’s Mtn. where a person triggered an avalanche while ascending, and was caught, carried, and injured. Details are very limited, but we will share information as it becomes available.”
– Friends of the Chugach Avalanche Center
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Daniel Krueger, an avalanche forecaster with the Chugach National Forest Avalanche Information Center, confirmed the incident to KTUU, and said two forecasters traveled to the site Sunday to conduct a formal incident report. Saturday was an active day across the forecast zone. Krueger added that his center recorded 10 reported avalanches, several of them human-triggered, with additional natural slides releasing in the Girdwood Valley and along Turnagain Pass. The Friends of the Chugach Avalanche Center noted slides on Tincan, Sunburst, Taylor Pass, in Placer Valley, and near the Punchbowl area outside Girdwood, with some triggered remotely.
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The dangerous conditions stemmed from a storm that moved through the region from late Wednesday into Friday, depositing roughly a foot of new snow on top of an existing weak layer of faceted crystals, a combination Krueger described as particularly hazardous. The avalanche forecast for the day warned, “The exiting storm delivered 12” of snow which is sitting on top of a layer of weak, faceted snow at all elevations creating dangerous avalanche conditions. It will be easy to trigger an avalanche around 1’ deep in the new snow and 2’ deep in the wind blown snow. These avalanches may be larger in Girdwood Valley. A conservative approach to the mountains today will allow the snow time to adjust. The safest option is to stick to lower angle slopes.”
Back in Italy, Rainoldi’s death struck hard in the tight-knit mountain communities of Valtellina, reports ValtellinaNotizie. He was a board member of the transport category section of Confartigianato Imprese Sondrio, a regional business association, and served on the council of the Tirano section of that organization, according to Giornale di Lombardia. He also volunteered as a dog handler with the CNSAS (National Alpine and Speleological Rescue Corps) at its Sondrio station, training to find and save people buried in the same terrain that ultimately claimed his life. He was the son of the owners of the Rainoldi haulage company, based in San Giacomo di Teglio.
The Chugach National Forest Avalanche Information Center continues to urge backcountry travelers to recognize warning signs of an unstable snowpack, including audible collapsing sounds underfoot, visible shooting cracks in the snow surface, and recent avalanche activity on nearby slopes. Forecasters advise sticking to lower-angle terrain when a persistent weak layer is buried in the snowpack, noting that such layers can be triggered without warning even when surface conditions appear benign.
The fatality is the 22nd avalanche-related death in the United States this season. There have also been 11 in Canada.
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