Furia, that is not a 45 deg slope or the people wou;dn't be walking up it. 20, perhaps 25. CFIT into a mountain at speed looks exactly like this. Impact point in the snow at the bottom, debris field extending upslope.
Extensive crushing/impact damage to the front and minimal damage to the back.
Main Rotor contact with the snow would spin the aircraft around as the blades destroy themselves.
Not flying upslope at all. Flying straight and level, hence the extensive crushing.
Being a very early aircraft I'm not sure if this would have EGPWS/TAWS or not, it came out a bit later so might have had to have been a retrofit. Aser, do you know if it had EGPWS?
FDR will quickly give them the flight path of the aircraft.
Condolences to all those involved and their families. A sad day for SAR/EMS.