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| Silver Brelsford with Oly after he was returned to the family. |
Bozeman, Montana/Salmon, Idaho - Several days after an avalanche
accident killed his owner and left him buried for days, a Welsh corgi
has reappeared outside the motel room rented by the man and his wife.
The dog, Oly, is said to have somehow
freed himself from about 50 feet of snow.
"We
don't have a lot of data on dogs and avalanches. What we do know is
that humans very, very, very rarely survive such a long burial,"
said Mark Staples, avalanche specialist for the Gallatin National
Forest Avalanche Center in Montana.
Kerry Gaillard, David Gaillard's wife,
was able to survive by holding onto a tree. She searched for him for
hours before skiing to help.
David's body was found later and the
lack of a body for Oly made authorities assume he was dead as well.
David was a wildlife conservationist and alpine outdoorsman who was
much-loved by the conservation community.
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