The tragic avalanche that occurred at the Rogers Pass summit in March of 1910 remains Canada’s deadliest. 58 railway workers, the majority Japanese Canadian, lost their lives while attempting to clear a snow slide from the tracks when another larger avalanche struck from the other side in the middle of the dark night. This documentary project also delves into the lives of two unlikely friends today, the great grandson of one of the railway workers who saw the aftermath of the avalanche, and a Japanese-born, Canadian immigrant ski guide brought together by their need for purpose, healing, honouring the fallen, and a shared passion for researching the deep mysteries and racial injustices of this event.  

About the Filmmakers: Owen Akira Kato is a screenwriter from Vancouver. He is the son of a Japanese Canadian gas station owner and Irish/English/Scottish lab technician. The first of his gamily lineage to attend university, he pursed created writing and philosophy at the University of British Columbia, specializing in screenwriting, power and oppression, and ethics. 

Tomo Fukimura is a Japanese-born Japanese Canadian, based in Revelstoke, BC. One of the two core subjects of the documentary, having survived an avalanche in the interior of BC. Now, he works as an ACMG-certified ski guide and avalanche awareness advocate.