ASSOCIATED PRESS • December 11, 2023
A skier suffered a life-threatening leg injury after triggering an avalanche while skiing down Mount Washington. Dominic Torro, 30, of Bow, New Hampshire, was coming down Airplane Gully in a wilderness area with a friend Saturday morning. Torro’s friend and another skier went to Torro and called 911. While waiting for the helicopter, the skiers shoveled out an area on the slope so that a paramedic and litter basket could be lowered down from the helicopter and have enough room to load Torro and hoist him back up.