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× How rescuers saved an Idaho man and his 16-year-old daughter after a ski accident in Montana’s backcountry By Eli Francovich, The Spokesman-Review Published: February 22, 2021, 6:05am Share: 2 Photos Kelly and Edward Moellmer smile during a backcountry skiing trip in 2020. (Courtesy Edward Moellmer/The Spokesman-Review/TNS) Photo Gallery SPOKANE — Goggles covered in ice and visibility nearing zero, Edward Moellmer squinted down an expanse of snow near the summit of Montana’s Engle Peak. What was that? That blurry disruption in an otherwise white expanse of sn...

Published: 3:55 PM PST February 17, 2021 Updated: 4:10 PM PST February 17, 2021 BONNER COUNTY, Idaho — A 16-year-old and her father are back home safe after becoming separated in the Cabinet Mountains in Montana thanks to search and rescue volunteers from the Sandpoint and Bonners Ferry area, as reported by KREM 2 news partner the Bonner County Daily Bee. Ed and Kelly Moellmer were on a father-daughter ski trip in the mountains at Engle Peak, a roughly 90-mile drive from Bonners Ferry. At roughly 100 feet from the summit, Ed said, he planned to take the route...

“Travis, there’s been an accident. In Montana. On Engle Peak. Edward’s fallen. Him and Kelly are split up. Can you help?”