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The resort closed both sides of the mountain for the rest of Wednesday. Image: Rescues crews work at the scene of an avalanche at a California ski resort near Lake Tahoe (Mark Sponsler via AP)
All cases in the list below are from alpine or downhill skiing activities; no skiers have been known to have died during any cross-country event, or in any major international ski jumping competitions (e.g. FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup, FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, and the Olympic Games), though many ski ...
Ski patrol, along with more than 100 Palisades Tahoe personnel and members of the public, helped search for people possibly buried in the snow, the resort said. Aside from Parker, officials said ...
On July 8, 1980, a 19-year-old man was killed when his car jumped the track and his head struck a rock. Action Park claimed him as an employee, as a customer death would have to be reported to the state. However, while he had previously worked at the ski resort that would later become Action Park, he was never employed at Action Park itself. [1]
The outdoors community is grieving the sudden loss of ski mountaineer Hilaree Nelson, a legend of extreme feats who died after a small avalanche coming down from the peak of the world's eighth ...
On November 13, 2011, [3] Jamie Pierre was hiking at Snowbird Resort in Utah to snowboard some early season snow. The resort was not open and no avalanche control had been done. Pierre and his friend, Jack Pilot, were planning to ski the area known as South Chute. He triggered an avalanche that rolled him over rocks for 800 feet.
The 2012 Tunnel Creek avalanche occurred in the northwest United States on February 19, 2012. It happened at about noon PST in the Tunnel Creek section of Stevens Pass, a mountain pass through the Cascade Mountains of Washington, at the border of King and Chelan counties. [1]
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