A survivor of a rockfall last week in Banff National Park is remembering his 33-year-old roommate, who didn't make it out alive from under the rubble, as a kind and generous friend.

Khaled Elgamal, 28, says Hamza Benhilal, of Surrey, B.C., was one of two people who died after a slab of mountain gave way last Thursday, raining rock down on hikers at Bow Glacier Falls, about 200 kilometres northwest of Calgary.

"He was my friend but also like my big brother," Elgamal said Monday in an interview wit…