Friend, colleague, educator, leader, mentor – These are just a few of the distinctions rented on Jutta Hinrichs by those who knew her.
Calgary’s 70 -year -old woman was identified as one of the people killed in the devastating rock band in Bow Glacier Falls, about 40 km north of Lake Louise along the Ice Champs Promenade on Wednesday.
Emergency crews have been called in the region by Banff National Park Thursday at 1:30 p.m.
Two people who had hiked in the region and were injured in the slide, were transported by plane to the hospital. Another was transported to hospital by an ambulance on the ground, while Hinrichs died on the scene.
Friday, the body of a second victim was also recovered but has not yet been identified before the next parent.
A passionate hiker, who loved the mountains, the friends of Hinrichs say that she was “a beautiful attentive soul with a huge smile and the love of people and nature”.
Last Friday, she had just returned to Canada a trip to Peru.
The friends of Hinrichs tell Global News that she was a passionate hiker who loved the mountains.
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Hinrichs was also a well -known and accomplished occupational therapist.
His contributions to the occupational therapy profession, which lasted five decades, were recognized last year with a life price of completion.
Robin Telasky, executive director of the Society of Alberta Egagashes Therapists, was a friend of Hinrichs for 18 years and describes her as “an exceptional leader” and a “graceful person”.
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“It is such a tragic loss for occupational therapy in Canada because Jutta was such an exceptional leader and such a graceful person who always abandoned his time, not only to his colleagues, but also as a volunteer,” said Robin Telelasky, Executive Director for the Society of Alberta.
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“It is really difficult to think of an occupational therapist who would not have been touched in one way or another by Jutta,” added Telasky, “that is why she received the Lifetime Achievement Prize last year.”
Hinrich’s has also been a recipient of numerous prizes for his volunteer work, including an exceptional community volunteer prize for Central Way Way in Calgary and the medallion of the queen’s jubilee of the Société de Sclerosis in Plates de Canada.
The office of the vice-president of external relations at the University of Alberta also provided a statement to Global News on the death of Hinrichs, who was a professor in the Encreen therapy department of the Medicine Rehabilitation Faculty until his retirement in July 2024.
This described him as “a devoted leader” who “has fed many students, tutors and clinicians to flourish and grow. That his work continues to enrich the tapestry of Alberta occupational therapy is his heritage. ”
Following an in -depth research of dozens of emergency respondents and research and rescue experts, Parks Canada said that a research dog had taken the smell of the second victim on Thursday evening, but that it was too late in the day and that the region was still too unstable to recover the body.
“We wanted to assess a geotechnical engineer (the region) – we did not want to exhibit people at this risk,” said Lisa Paulson, specialist in the safety of visitors to Parks Canada. “It was not easy recovery.”
The rescue teams returned to First Light on Friday and with the help of the Lake Louise fire service, were able to remove the debris and recover the body of the second victim.
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