At a Glance

A man died in an avalanche near Aspen, Colorado.A second skier succumbed to injuries sustained last week at Taos Ski Valley resort in New Mexico.

A skier was killed Monday in a Colorado avalanche, the same day authorities announced a second death from a Thursday avalanche in Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico.

In Colorado, the Pitkin County Sheriff's Office said the unidentified man who died in Monday's avalanche near Aspen was part of a caught in the slide around 10:20 a.m. local time, according to a press statement.

The man was found soon after the avalanche but attempts to revive him with CPR failed.

No one else in the group that included friends and family members was injured. Authorities say they put the five surviving skiers in contact with the Aspen Hope Center for grief counseling services, according to the statement.

Meanwhile, relatives confirmed Monday that Corey Borg-Massanari, 22, of Vail, Colorado, succumbed to injuries he sustained from Thursday's Taos Ski Valley 26-year-old Matthew Zonghetti of Massachusetts.

The avalanche occurred at the resort near Kachina Peak in northern New Mexico.

The avalanche launched a massive 20-minute search for victims.

People search for victims after an avalanche buried multiple people near the highest peak of Taos Ski Valley, one of the biggest resorts in New Mexico, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019.

(Morgan Timms/Taos News via AP)

Zonghetti was pronounced dead soon after he was recovered, while the critically-injured Borg-Massanari was transported 125 miles south to the University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque, where he died Monday.

Resort officials confirmed that they were the only two victims of the snow slide.

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It's unclear what triggered the New Mexico avalanche, officials say. Earlier on the day of the avalanche, the resort set off explosives aimed at triggering avalanches before skiers took to the slopes.

“We had checked that area for this morning and enacted controls,” Chris Stagg, a spokesman for Taos Ski Valley, told USA Today. “This is a great example that you’re never 100 percent certain.”

The cause of the avalanche remains under investigation.

Up to 16 inches of snow had fallen in the Taos Ski Valley in the days before the avalanche, according to weather.com meteorologists.

An extremely active winter thus far in New Mexico has padded the snowpack in the mountains of northern New Mexico and some spots have had twice their usual winter snowfall through mid-January.