(Reuters) - A veteran ski patroller who was buried in an avalanche during a safety exercise at a California resort on Monday has died, the resort said in a statement on Tuesday. Bill Foster, 53, died at Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno, Nevada, according to a statement from Alpine Meadows, a resort near Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Foster, who was a ski patroller for 28 years, was part of a team who were performing "routine snow safety" in the Sherwood Bowl area of the resort Monday morning when an avalanche was triggered by an explosive charge thrown by a senior patroller. ...
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