A Brazilian student in Canada was killed while he was snowboarding on the Grouse Mountain.

The 16-year-old exchange student went boarding with his friends on the Grouse Mountain in North Vancouver. He fell down the main trail and fell about nine metres. He hit a tree and died, according to RCMP Corporal Richard De Jong, The Huffington Post reports.

Mr De Jong also informed that the boy was accompanied by a teenage friend from the family he had been living with. In addition, there were three other boys with him before he got separated from them. The Grouse Mountain staff made an effort to trace him. However, heavy sleet and fog made it extremely difficult for them to do a thorough search of the boy, he said.

Nevertheless, a North Shore Search and Rescue team was called in to locate the snowboarder only after midnight. The teenage boy was found by the team while he was in a cardiac arrest. Attempts were made to resuscitate him. However, all their efforts were in vain as he was declared dead on the spot.

North Shore Search and Rescue spokesman Tim Jones informed that the boy had been found below one of the Grouse Mountain peaks. It was near the Olympic chairlift and Heaven's Sake. Mr Jones called that accident a tragic one. He also blamed the bad weather. He said that there were possibilities that the boy might have gone into a steep zone where he had met with the accident.

The depressing incident of the boy getting killed may also have instigated by the fact that the inexperienced boy was not wearing any helmet when he was snowboarding. Cpl De Jong strongly recommends wearing helmet as the incident has shown what might have happened if someone is not wearing one.

Mr De Jon further said that the boy's family in Brazil had been informed about the accident. The family is expected to reach Canada shortly for the identification of his body. They are going to transport the body home.