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The mother of a Canadian Forces member who died in an avalanche during a training exercise in Banff National Park says she’s satisfied with the results of a report into his death.

Late Monday, the military delivered the board of inquiry report into Sgt. Mark Anthony Salesse’s death to his mother, Liz Quinn, at her family’s home in Moncton, N.B.

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“It’s been long waiting,” Quinn said Tuesday in an interview.

Salesse, a 44-year-old search-and-rescue technician based in Winnipeg, died in February 2015 when he was swept off a cliff by an avalanche during a training exercise on Polar Circus — a well-known ice climbing route in Banff National Park.

When Salesse and his climbing partner went out Feb. 5, 2015, avalanche conditions were rated as moderate in the alpine — although the forecasts for both Banff and nearby Jasper National Park warned those conditions could change by mid-day as a storm blew in.