In the wake of his death in an avalanche in Alaska, the family of a Minnesota man is remembering him as “kind, patient and hard-working.”
Jeremy Leif, 38, of Golden Valley, and two friends with Minnesota ties were buried beneath at least 40 feet of snow in a half-a-mile long avalanche near the resort town of Girdwood on Tuesday.
Also killed along with Leif were David Linder, 39, and Charles Eppard, 39, who have both lived in Minnesota in the past, though are now based in Florida and Montana respectively. Linder is a co-owner of Radio Mankato, which paid tribute to him last week.
The Anchorage Daily News reports that witnesses had seen all three men deploy their avalanche airbags, which are designed to help them stay on the surface of the avalanche, but they are believed to have been buried…