A survivor of a rock fall last week at Banff National Park is remembering his 33 -year -old Hamza Benhilal friend, who did not come out alive from under the rubble.
Khaled Elgamal, 28, from Surrey, BC, says that his fourth and friend Benhilal was one of the two people who died after a mountain slab gave up last Thursday, raining rocks on the hikers in Bow Glacier Falls.
The first person has been identified as Jutta Hinrichs, 70, a university professor withdrawal from Calgary.
Elgamal says he was visiting Banff with Benhilal, an engineer, when they heard the loud sound of the rocks that were evicted and started running.
Elgamal says he was crushed by the rock pieces and is recovering in a Calgary hospital from a fractured pelvis and shoulder.
Parks Canada has closed the area around the cataracts, and says that the tests show that the fall of rocks was the result of common geological forces in the mountain areas.
More information will be provided when available.
