One person is dead and two others were treated for medical issues after a group of rafting guides operating in the Chilkat Valley took a weekend trip down two rivers in Canada.

A Montana resident, Marin Pitt, died while on a guides-only rafting trip down the Blanchard and Tatshenshini rivers on June 22, according to a prepared statement from Alaska Mountain Guides & Climbing School, Inc. director of operations Sabrina Harvey.

An ambulance from Haines…

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