"So she was able to say one last thing to her before she left us, which we are all so unbelievably grateful for." 'Kos is my best bud' she answered the call and we were able to put her up on speakerphone to Laura's ear, and she was able to say goodbye to her daughter before she flatlined," said Campbell. Her heart kept beating as her mother's plane touched down and her cellphone rang. Kosakoski's mother, on vacation in Colombia at the time of the accident, was able to book a flight to Calgary, but was still in the air when doctors delivered the bad news. "And so they just took away the blood transfusions and the rest and just let her body slowly fade away." But the next morning doctors discovered her bowel had died - a turn of events "incompatible with life," the doctors told him. He said she flatlined once more that night, but they revived her and everything was looking positive. "And at that point she was taken out of the OR and was put down in ICU, and we were able to go and see her for the first time since the accident and then basically able to sit with her from that evening through until eventually she passed away," said Campbell. Her heart, which had stopped, started to pump. Kosakoski was taken to the nearby Highway 93, where a helicopter shuttled her to Banff and then STARS air ambulance rushed her to Calgary.Ĭampbell said Kosakoski's body temperature had plummeted to 24 C - hypothermic - but that doctors were able to gradually bring her temperature back up. They performed CPR and co-ordinated a rescue. Campbell pulled out one of his spare gloves to replace one that she had lost while buried. But we got to her face and she looked blue."Ĭampbell and his friend eventually pulled Kosakoski from the snow and wrapped her in jackets. And so when we got to her, we were able to get to her face and the rest of her was still encased. "But, you know, you don't have a choice really. "I was fighting hard to try to keep it together," said Campbell, talking about the tragedy by phone with CBC Calgary. It took almost that long again to dig out the rest of her body. It took her husband and his friend almost an hour to find her and clear the snow from her face. Kosakoski, 32, was buried in snow in the Mount Hector area of Banff National Park. Laura Kosakoski, a family doctor who lived in Canmore, Alta. The resulting avalanche rushed down the hill and engulfed Dr.
It left a patch of solid snow where he stood, but all around him it slid. Adam Campbell was standing on a mountainside Friday looking down the slope where his wife had just skied her last run of the day when the snow gave way.