Friends and family describe victim of fatal avalanche as a wonderful human being [Video]

She loved life and lived it to the fullest — that’s how friends and family are remembering an Alberta woman who was killed in an avalanche in Kananaskis country west of Calgary on Friday.

Thirty-four-year-old Minetta Norrie, one of two people killed in separate avalanches on Friday, was back-country skiing with three friends, off Highway 742, near Mount Black Prince, when she was she was swept away by the slide.

RCMP say despite the “diligent best efforts of the other three skiers to provide medical attention,” Norrie was declared dead by first responders.

Emily King-Moore, who was Norrie’s friend since they were about 10-years-old, described her as “unforgettable. She was loud and boisterous, confident and full of life.”

“I was her sidekick when we were children,” King-Moore added. “We went to Guatemala to study Spanish when we were teenagers. We were both junior forest rangers during high school as a …