The other 11 escaped injury in the slide Thursday afternoon in the Brewer Creek area.

The avalanche occurred a day after three snowmobilers died in a snowslide near Fernie and a French heli-skier died in a separate avalanche near Valemount.

The latest death brings to 24 the number of people killed in avalanches in British Columbia this season.

Police identified the snowmobilers as Thomas Brown, 25, and Daren Jones, 25, both of Fernie, and Daren Drake, 43, of nearby Crowsnest Pass.

The men were snowmobiling in the Fairy Creek Meadows area, a popular backcountry locale, when the slide occurred.

The dead skier was identified as Jean-Luc Megevand, 45, of Seynod, France.

He was among a group of 10 skiers from Europe when he and several others were swept away in the slide on Mount Terry Fox.

All were wearing avalanche locator beacons and were found quickly but Megevand was buried for almost 30 minutes.

The avalanches happened within two hours of each other.

The snowmobilers were dug out by companions. Two died at the scene and another in a hospital. A fourth snowmobiler was slightly hurt, and three others were uninjured.