The group of ice climbers involved in a fatal avalanche that killed a Seattle woman earlier this month tried to dig her out from under a rubble pile of ice with their bare hands before rescuers arrived because they didn’t have rescue equipment, according to a report released today by the Colorado Avalanche Information

Center. But it probably wouldn’t have made a difference in the end, they said.

The women had little notice of the impending danger, and first heard a a loud “crack” b...