# Multiple hikers missing after large rockslide near Banff, AB - 6/19/2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** breaking-news\ **Created:** [June 20, 2025, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-hikers-missing-after-large-rockslide-near-banff-ab-6-19-2025/1019875 "2025-06-20T02:15:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-hikers-missing-after-large-rockslide-near-banff-ab-6-19-2025/1019875/1 "2025-06-20T02:15:52Z")
Details are sketchy, but isn’t this near where the recent G7 summit was? One witness said they estimated the resulting rockpile to be 10 meters deep. This link has before and after pictures. [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/bow-lake-glacier-falls-rockslide-banff-alberta-hikers-1.7566196](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/bow-lake-glacier-falls-rockslide-banff-alberta-hikers-1.7566196) ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-hikers-missing-after-large-rockslide-near-banff-ab-6-19-2025/1019875/2 "2025-06-20T04:16:41Z")
It’s at least several kilometers away. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-hikers-missing-after-large-rockslide-near-banff-ab-6-19-2025/1019875/3 "2025-06-20T04:38:59Z")
I have since discovered that it’s about 100 miles away. One confirmed fatality. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-hikers-missing-after-large-rockslide-near-banff-ab-6-19-2025/1019875/4 "2025-06-20T11:23:32Z")
> Rescuers in Alberta are set to resume their search today for anyone else caught up in a massive rockfall that killed one and injured three in a remote section of Banff National Park… > > Officials have said one person was found dead at the scene, two people were airlifted to hospital in Calgary and a third was taken by ground ambulance. > **[In the news today: Search to continue for hikers after Banff rockfall](https://www.rmoutlook.com/national-news/in-the-news-today-search-to-continue-for-hikers-after-banff-rockfall-10838565)** > > Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... So it’s not clear how are still buried under a massive pile of rock–or if there simply weren’t many people there or if they ran fast enough to escape. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-hikers-missing-after-large-rockslide-near-banff-ab-6-19-2025/1019875/5 "2025-06-20T11:58:10Z")
It sounds, from the guy who ran away, like there were a lot of people there. They probably just haven’t found the bodies, yet. 😟 There might still be some survivors, too. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-hikers-missing-after-large-rockslide-near-banff-ab-6-19-2025/1019875/6 "2025-06-20T14:03:28Z")
Here is some video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_QYPrrPS5tg&pp=ygUFYmFuZmY%3D](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QYPrrPS5tg&pp=ygUFYmFuZmY%3D) ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-hikers-missing-after-large-rockslide-near-banff-ab-6-19-2025/1019875/7 "2025-06-20T21:23:23Z")
> Officials said no one else has been reported missing and there are no unidentified vehicles at the trailhead. > **[Searchers recover 2nd body after rockfall near Canada's Banff National Park...](https://apnews.com/article/rockfall-banff-canada-5ebaee2636a29f1cac3ed495e3c368ce)** > > Search teams located a second body following a massive rockfall off a hiking trail in Canada’s Banff National Park. So it looks like a total of two dead and three injured. > Teams have been using aircraft with infrared sensors to search the debris field and a geotechnical engineer was brought in to check the stability of the mountainside. > **[Banff National Park rockfall victim identified as retired university educator](https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/alberta/banff-national-park-rockfall-victim-identified-as-retired-university-educator/article_08e1c107-ee16-5777-a347-8fee729711a3.html)** > > One of the two people killed in a rockfall in Banff National Park was identified Friday as 70-year-old Jutta Hinrichs of Calgary. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-hikers-missing-after-large-rockslide-near-banff-ab-6-19-2025/1019875/8 "2025-06-20T23:11:39Z")
While I feel bad for those who were injured or worse, this disaster was a lot less bad than it potentially could have been. Moderators, lock this thread if you deem it appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-hikers-missing-after-large-rockslide-near-banff-ab-6-19-2025/1019875/9 "2025-06-21T02:24:43Z")
Not nearly as bad as i feared! ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-hikers-missing-after-large-rockslide-near-banff-ab-6-19-2025/1019875/10 "2025-06-21T02:25:08Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Moderators, lock this thread if you deem it appropriate. We don’t usually do that unless a thread is causing problems. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-hikers-missing-after-large-rockslide-near-banff-ab-6-19-2025/1019875/11 "2025-06-21T02:43:42Z")
Not a problem! It looked like a potentially big news story, and it turned out (thank heavens) not to be outside its immediate area.