She spotted an avalanche on the slope, initiated a transceiver search and immediately acquired a signal, the report said. She pinpointed him with her avalanche probe and yelled for help as she started digging through 3 feet of debris his body was buried under.

The skier "may have been buried for more than four hours before help arrived," the report added The man was identified as Don Moden Jr. in a Facebook tribute shared by the Ouray Mountain Rescue Team A wife is recovering after she found the body of her husband buried 3 feet deep in snow following an avalanche in Colorado,

Image via Facebook Out of all the people who can stumble across your dead body, your spouse is probably one of the most traumatic — outside of parent or own child. Sadly, a Colorado wife made the grisly discovery of finding her own husband's frozen body after he passed away in an avalanche.

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