According to reports from the Chilean news website ,聽Canadian freeskier JP Auclair and Swede Andreas Fransson died in an avalanche on 12,159-foot Mount San Lorenzo, a prominent peak that forms the border between Patagonian Chile and Argentina. The first news of the incident, which happened Monday afternoon local time, came by satellite phone to the police station at Cochrane, a tiny town on the east side of the Northern Patagonian Icefield that climbers use to access the mountain.
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Auclair, 37, was born in Quebec and has been a fixture on the freeskiing and ski-movie scene for the better part of the last two decades. Fans of the Sherpas Cinema movie All.I.Can will remember skiing through the streets of Trail, British Columbia. Auclair is one of the founders of .
Overflights of the mountain by local authorities on Tuesday confirmed two bodies high on the mountain.