Canadian woman dies in Italy while hiking
Chelsea Rebecca Alvarez, from Waterloo, Ontario, had recently moved to Europe with her fiancee.
She died on New Year's Day after falling off a mountain path during a hike near the Italian-Austrian border, CP24 reports said.
According to Italian media reports, Alvarez who was following a mountain path at an altitude of 2,200 metres while hiking in the countryside in South Tyrol lost her balance and fell about 150 metres onto rocks in the valley below where she died instantly.
The rescue teams later recovered her body from the area.
She was engaged to be married to Colin Behenna, the former captain of the OHL Barrie Colts, who was then playing hockey in a European hockey league for the Sterzing Broncos.
Alvarez, who graduated from Conestoga College with an engineering degree in 2015, had been working as a server and bartender at the St. Louis Bar and Grill in Waterloo, for the last five years.
On Tuesday, the hockey issued a statement expressing its condolences to Behenna and Alvarez's family and mentioned that Behenna was travelling back to Canada to be with his fiancee's family.
(Reported by Asha Bajaj)
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