List of skiing deaths
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The following is a partial list of skiing deaths of notable people, in chronological order. It includes skiiers
Skiing
Skiing is a recreational activity using skis as equipment for traveling over snow. Skis are used in conjunction with boots that connect to the ski with use of a binding....

 and snowboarders
Snowboarding
Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a slope that is covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet using a special boot set onto mounted binding. The development of snowboarding was inspired by skateboarding, sledding, surfing and skiing. It was developed in the U.S.A...

 both professional and recreational whose deaths are due to accidents or avalanche
Avalanche
An avalanche is a sudden rapid flow of snow down a slope, occurring when either natural triggers or human activity causes a critical escalating transition from the slow equilibrium evolution of the snow pack. Typically occurring in mountainous terrain, an avalanche can mix air and water with the...

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Skiing deaths

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! Name
! Age
! Location
! Country
! Date of accident
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||Mieczysław Karłowicz||32||Tatra Mountains
Tatra Mountains
The Tatra Mountains, Tatras or Tatra , are a mountain range which forms a natural border between Slovakia and Poland, and are the highest mountain range in the Carpathian Mountains...

||Poland-Slovakia border||1909-02-08
|-
||Giacinto Sertorelli
Giacinto Sertorelli
Giacinto "Cinto" Sertorelli was an Italian alpine skier who competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics.In 1936 he finished seventh in the alpine skiing combined event....

||22||Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Garmisch-Partenkirchen is a mountain resort town in Bavaria, southern Germany. It is the administrative centre of the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in the Oberbayern region, and the district is on the border with Austria...

||Germany||1938-01-26
|-
||James Palmer-Tomkinson
James Palmer-Tomkinson
James Algernon Palmer-Tomkinson was a British alpine skier who competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics and in the 1948 Winter Olympics....

||36|| || ||1952-01-07
|-
||Ross Milne
Ross Milne
Ross Milne was an Australian Olympic downhill skier who died when he struck a tree during a practice run three days before the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria....

||19||Innsbruck
Innsbruck
- Main sights :- Buildings :*Golden Roof*Kaiserliche Hofburg *Hofkirche with the cenotaph of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor*Altes Landhaus...

||Austria||1964-01-25
|-
||Buddy Werner
Buddy Werner
Wallace "Buddy" Werner was an American ski racer in the 1950s and early 1960s. Born and raised in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, Werner and his siblings were accomplished skiers, and competed in both alpine and Nordic events on Howelsen Hill...

||28||Las Trais Fluors slope, St. Moritz
St. Moritz
St. Moritz is a resort town in the Engadine valley in Switzerland. It is a municipality in the district of Maloja in the Swiss canton of Graubünden...

||Switzerland||1964-04-12
|-
||Barbara Henneberger
Barbara Henneberger
Barbara-Maria "Barbi" Henneberger was a West German alpine skier who competed for the Unified Team of Germany at the 1960 and 1964 Winter Olympics.In 1960 at age 19, she won the bronze medal in the slalom...

||23||Las Trais Fluors slope, St. Moritz
St. Moritz
St. Moritz is a resort town in the Engadine valley in Switzerland. It is a municipality in the district of Maloja in the Swiss canton of Graubünden...

||Switzerland||1964-04-12
|-
||Michel Bozon
Michel Bozon
Michel Bozon, abt. 1950-23 January 1970, was a French alpine skier.Bozon was killed on the Piste Emile Allais at Megève during a World Cup downhill event....

||20||Piste Emile Allais, Megève||France||1970-01-23
|-
||Josef Walcher
Josef Walcher
Josef "Sepp" Walcher was an Austrian alpine skier.Born in Schladming, Styria, he concluded his career in 1982 with five World Cup victories and a World Championships gold medal. He was killed in a skiing accident in a benefit race in 1984 at his hometown of Schladming.-Achievements:-Footnotes:...

||29||Schladming
Schladming
Schladming is a small mining town in the Austrian state of Styria, that is now very popular with tourists. It has become a large ski resort and has held various skiing competitions recently. The shopping area has lots of cafes, restaurant and a variety of shops and caters well for tourists.As of...

||Austria||1984-01-22
|-
||Leonardo David
Leonardo David
Leonardo David was an Italian alpine skier who died of heart failure after 5 years in a coma caused by injuries he sustained in a crash in practice runs in Peru. When he returned to Italy, he complained extensively about head aches and, unbelievably, was essentially ignored by the Italian Ski...

||24||Lake Placid, New York
Lake Placid, New York
Lake Placid is a village in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, United States. As of the 2000 census, the village had a population of 2,638....

||United States||1979-03-03
|-
||Hugh Lindsay
Hugh Lindsay (equerry)
Major Hugh Lindsay, LVO , was Equerry to Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom from 1983 to 1986.Lindsay was educated at the Millfield. He was a career soldier who served in the 9th/12th Royal Lancers...

||43 or 44||Gotschnagrat
Gotschnagrat
Gotschnagrat is a mountain in the Plessur Range , located near Klosters in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland.-External links:*...

 Mountain, Klosters
Klosters
Klosters-Serneus is a municipality in the district of Prättigau/Davos in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.Its well-known ski resort lies from Zurich, the nearest international airport. Transfer time is about 1.5 hours. Klosters is from Davos...

||Switzerland||1988-03-10
|-
||Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz
Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz
Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Duke of Cádiz, Grandee of Spain was a grandson of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and a Legitimist claimant to the throne of France.-Life:Alfonso was born in the Clinica Santa Anna in Rome, the elder son of Infante...

||52||Beaver Creek Resort
Beaver Creek Resort
Beaver Creek Resort is a major United States ski resort near Avon, Colorado, run by Vail Resorts. The resort comprises three villages, the main Beaver Creek Village, Bachelor Gulch, and Arrowhead to the west...

, Colorado
Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...

||United States||1989-01-30
|-
||Duncan MacPherson
Duncan MacPherson
Duncan MacPherson was a professional ice hockey player who died under mysterious circumstances. He was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. A standout defensive defenceman for the Saskatoon Blades of the Western Hockey League, MacPherson was drafted in the first round, 20th overall, of the 1984 NHL...

||23||Stubai Alps
Stubai Alps
The Stubai Alps is a mountain range in the Central Eastern Alps of Europe. It is named after the Stubaital valley to its east. It is located southwest of Innsbruck, Austria, and several summits of the range form part of Austria's border with Italy...

||Austria||1989-08-10
|-
||Gernot Reinstadler
Gernot Reinstadler
Gernot Reinstadler was an Austrian ski racer. He was regarded as among the most promising young talents of the Austrian downhill team of the early 1990s....

||20||Wengen
Wengen
Wengen may refer to:*Wengen, a village and winter resort in Switzerland*La Val, a commune in South Tyrol, Italy with the German name "Wengen"*in Germany:**Wengen , a village in the municipality of Nennslingen in Mittelfranken...

||Switzerland||1991-01-20
|-
||Ulrike Maier
Ulrike Maier
Ulrike Maier was an Austrian alpine ski racer, two-time Super-G World Alpine Ski Champion.Born in Rauris, Maier won the Super-G gold medal at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in both 1989 and 1991. She also took home the giant slalom silver medal in the 1991 event...

||26||Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Garmisch-Partenkirchen is a mountain resort town in Bavaria, southern Germany. It is the administrative centre of the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in the Oberbayern region, and the district is on the border with Austria...

||Germany||1994-01-29
|-
||Michael Kennedy||39|| Aspen
Aspen, Colorado
The City of Aspen is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous city of Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. The United States Census Bureau estimates that the city population was 5,804 in 2005...

, Colorado
Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...

||United States||1997-12-31
|-
||Sonny Bono
Sonny Bono
Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono was an American recording artist, record producer, actor, and politician whose career spanned over three decades.-Early life:...

||62||Heavenly Ski Resort
Heavenly Ski Resort
Heavenly Mountain Resort is a ski resort located on the California-Nevada border in South Lake Tahoe. It has 97 runs and 30 lifts that are spread between California and Nevada and four base facilities...

, Nevada
Nevada
Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...

||United States||1998-01-05
|-
||Doak Walker
Doak Walker
Ewell Doak Walker, Jr. was an American football player who is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He was a teammate of Bobby Layne in high school and the NFL.-Early life:...

||71||Steamboat Springs
Steamboat Springs
Steamboat Springs may refer to:*Steamboat Springs, Colorado, a town in Routt County, Colorado, United States*Steamboat Springs, Nevada, a collection of geysers located in northern Nevada, United States...

, Colorado
Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...

||United States||1998-09-27
|-
||Michel Trudeau
Michel Trudeau
Michel Trudeau was the youngest son of the late Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Trudeau.Born in Ottawa, Ontario, he studied at Dalhousie University to become a microbiologist....

||23||Kokanee Glacier Park, British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

||Canada||1998-11-13
|-
||Régine Cavagnoud
Régine Cavagnoud
Régine Cavagnoud was a French alpine skier. The 2001 Super-G World Champion, she was killed in a training accident.-Career:Régine Cavagnoud was born in Thônes, Haute-Savoie....

||31||Pitztal Glacier, Innsbruck
Innsbruck
- Main sights :- Buildings :*Golden Roof*Kaiserliche Hofburg *Hofkirche with the cenotaph of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor*Altes Landhaus...

||Austria||2001-10-31
|-
||Line Østvold
Line Østvold
Line Lunde Østvold was a professional snowboarder from Haugsbygda near Hønefoss, Norway. She specialized in Snowboard Cross events....

||25||Valle Nevado
Valle Nevado
Valle Nevado is a popular ski resort located 46 kilometers east of Santiago, Chile.Valle Nevado is one of South America's most modern ski resorts...

, Santiago
Santiago, Chile
Santiago , also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation . It is located in the country's central valley, at an elevation of above mean sea level...

||Chile
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

||2004-09-19
|-
||Jonatan Johansson
Jonatan Johansson (snowboarder)
Jonatan Johansson was a Swedish Olympic snowboarder from Sollentuna, Stockholm County.Johansson died following a failed jump landing during training for the International Ski Federation World Cup competition....

||26||Whiteface Mountain
Whiteface Mountain
Whiteface Mountain is the fifth-highest mountain in New York State, and one of the High Peaks of the Adirondack Mountains. Set apart from most of the other High Peaks, the summit offers a 360-degree view featuring the Adirondacks and perhaps on a clear day glimpses of Vermont and even Canada. The...

, Lake Placid, New York
Lake Placid, New York
Lake Placid is a village in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, United States. As of the 2000 census, the village had a population of 2,638....

||United States||2006-03-12
|-
||Doug Coombs
Doug Coombs
Doug Coombs was an American alpine skier and mountaineer who helped to pioneer the sport of extreme skiing, both in North America and worldwide.- Biography :...

||48||Couloir de Polichinelle, La Grave
La Grave
La Grave is a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department in southeastern France.It is a small ski resort in the French Alps, dominated by La Meije . It was the birthplace of Nicolas de Nicolay; adventurer and Geographer Ordinary to Henry II of France....

||France||2006-04-03
|-
||Edward LaChapelle
Edward LaChapelle
Edward Randle "Ed" LaChapelle was an American avalanche researcher, glaciologist, mountaineer, skier, author, and professor. He was a pioneer in the field of avalanche research and forecasting in North America....

||80||Monarch Ski Area
Monarch Ski Area
Monarch Ski and Snowboard Area is located on U.S. Highway 50. It is twenty miles west of Salida, Colorado, on Monarch Pass and has 54 trails, two terrain parks, and a newly-opened Extreme-Terrain area called Mirkwood. The Monarch Mountain Lodge is located three miles east of the ski area in the...

 near Salida, Colorado
Salida, Colorado
The City of Salida is a Statutory City that is the county seat and most populous city of Chaffee County, Colorado, United States. The population was 5,504 at the U.S. Census 2000.-History:800px|thumb|left| Panoramic View of Salida, 1910...

||United States||2007-02-01
|-
||John McWethy
John McWethy
John Fleetwood McWethy was an American journalist.McWethy was born in Aurora, Illinois and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1969 from DePauw University, where he was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. In 1970, he graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism...

||60||Keystone, Colorado
Keystone, Colorado
Keystone is a census-designated place in Summit County, Colorado, United States. The population was 825 at the 2000 census. The Dillon Post Office serves Keystone postal addresses....

||United States||2008-02-06
|-
||Natasha Richardson
Natasha Richardson
Natasha Jane Richardson was an English actress of stage and screen. A member of the Redgrave family, she was the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director/producer Tony Richardson and the granddaughter of Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson...

||45||Mont-Tremblant, Quebec||Canada||2009-03-16
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||C. R. Johnson||26||Squaw Valley Ski Resort
Squaw Valley Ski Resort
Squaw Valley Ski Resort in Olympic Valley, California, is one of the largest ski areas in the United States, and was the site of the 1960 Winter Olympics. It is the second-largest ski area at Lake Tahoe , with 33 chairlifts, and has the only funitel lift in the U.S...

||United States||2010-2-24
|-
|| Jamie Pierre||38||Snowbird, Utah
Snowbird, Utah
Snowbird is an unincorporated area based in Little Cottonwood Canyon in the Wasatch Range of the Rocky Mountains in Salt Lake County, Utah, U.S. It is most famous for Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort, an alpine skiing and snowboarding area, which opened in December 1971.- History :Snowbird is a...

||United States||2011-11-24
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