Snowboarder hits head and dies at Snow Summit Ski Area
A 23-year-old Los Angeles man died after hitting his head while snowboarding at the Snow Summit Ski Area in Big Bear Lake, the San Bernardino County Coroner’s office said today. Kwang Kim suffered the injury Wednesday while attempting a jump, the coroner’s office said in statement. The area is approved for jumping. SkiHelmets.org Note: It [...]
Second Skier without Ski Helmet dies at Breckenridge this year
BRECKENRIDGE — A 41-year-old man from Tampa, Fla., died while skiing Thursday morning at Breckenridge Ski Resort. The man was skiing on Angels Rest, an intermediate run, and missed a turn onto the Monte Cristo trail. He lost control and collided with a tree. Breckenridge Ski Patrol arrived immediately after receiving a call about the [...]
Canadian Premier asks parents to purchase ski helmets
Boy’s death won’t lead to mandatory use, but McGuinty thinks families should buy them The death of a 13-year-old novice skier last week jolted Premier Dalton McGuinty into buying a ski helmet, but the province will not make such safety gear mandatory on the slopes. In the wake of last Wednesday’s tragedy involving “James” Boo [...]
Grim record: 17th ski-area death
Vail crash kills metro-area man VAIL — Colorado’s ski resorts set a grim record Saturday when a 32-year-old Denver-area man became the 17th skier or snowboarder to die on the slopes this season. The unidentified man was pronounced dead at the Vail Valley Medical Center after a skiing incident on the intermediate run In The [...]
Westport teen killed in skiing accident
A Westport teenager who won numerous sportsmanship awards as a hockey player at Diman Voc-Tech was killed Sunday in a skiing accident. Andrew Dumont, 17, veered off a trail into a tree while skiing with his family at Wachusett Mountain in Princeton. Hed been skiing for years. He was a great skier it wasnt [...]
Conn. boy dies at Keystone
A 13-year-old skier from Connecticut died today after colliding with a tree on Keystone Resorts’ Diamondback Run. The young man died of massive chest trauma, according to Summit County coroner Joanne Richardson. She said the skier and his family arrived at the resort on Saturday. Resort spokesperson Kate Lessman said a call came into the [...]
White Lake student dies at Alpine
A 12-year-old White Lake boy lost his life after what both police and Alpine Valley Ski Resort officials call “a freak accident.” Tony G. Sisco, a seventh-grader at White Lake Middle School, was snowboarding at Alpine Valley in White Lake Township when he fell, resulting in a head injury. He died as a result of [...]
Memorial is today for boy killed in jump
A popular ski resort west of Pontiac shut two of its chairlifts and closed much of the area to skiing Monday night as more than 300 mourners held a candlelight vigil on a ski hill for a youngster who died last week after a snowboarding accident. A memorial service will be held today in Highland [...]
Fatal Skiing Accident in Banff
The ski season has just started at Sunshine Village resort near Banff and already there’s been a fatality. A 32-year-old man, originally from Kingston, Ontario, was killed when he fell on a run at the popular ski resort this morning. R-C-M-P Staff Sergeant Bill Young says the man was trying to make a turn when [...]
Dalton teen dies in snowboarding accident
UNIONDALE — A 19-year-old Elk Mountain employee died Saturday after crashing into a tree while off-trail snowboarding at the ski resort in Uniondale. Lackawanna County deputy coroner Joseph Swoboda said David M. Holgate, of RR 1, Dalton, was pronounced dead at Community Medical Center, Scranton, at 10:15 a.m. Swoboda said the cause of death was [...]
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