Mark Osborne and Matthew Fuhrman Yahoo! News Sun, 31 Jan 2021 15:05 UTC
Skier dies after being found buried upside down in snow at Mammoth Mountain
A skier has died after being found upside down in several feet of snow at Mammoth Mountain ski resort in California.
The man was found by guests of the resort buried head first at about noon on Thursday "in deep snow near the intersection of Redwing and Hully Gully," Mammoth Mountain said in a statement.
The Mammoth Mountain Ski Patrol arrived on the scene, where skiers had already begun digging out the man. The ski patrol started CPR immediately and used a defibrillator as the man did not have a pulse, the resort said.
The man was taken to Mammoth Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The victim was not identified by authorities, but San Diego ABC affiliate KGTV said he was a 52-year-old from Oceanside, California, about a half hour north of San Diego.
Circumstances into the skier's death are still being investigated, authorities said.
The Sierra Nevada Mountains are getting hammered by a snow storm this week. Mammoth Mountain said it had received 87 inches -- or more than 7 feet -- of snow since Tuesday.
Mammoth Mountain warned of the danger the weather posed to skiers on the same day the victim was found, and specifically alerted skiers to suffocation danger.
"This storm is another reminder about the power of Mother Nature. Conditions are currently dangerous," the resort wrote on Instagram. "It will take considerable time and extreme caution and care by our team to dig out and prepare the mountain to open the next few days.
"Snow Immersion Suffocation (SIS) danger will remain a threat through the weekend - ski and ride with a buddy and keep your buddy in sight at all times," it added.
The Sierra Nevada Mountains are getting hammered by a snow storm this week. Mammoth Mountain said it had received 87 inches -- or more than 7 feet -- of snow since Tuesday.
Mammoth Mountain warned of the danger the weather posed to skiers on the same day the victim was found, and specifically alerted skiers to suffocation danger.
"This storm is another reminder about the power of Mother Nature. Conditions are currently dangerous," the resort wrote on Instagram. "It will take considerable time and extreme caution and care by our team to dig out and prepare the mountain to open the next few days.
"Snow Immersion Suffocation (SIS) danger will remain a threat through the weekend - ski and ride with a buddy and keep your buddy in sight at all times," it added.
ABC News' David Herndon contributed to this report.
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A skier has died after being found upside down in several feet of snow at Mammoth Mountain ski resort in California.
It would be nice if they gave a little detail of how this covid death occurred? Avalanche, Bad crash, drunk, pure stupidity? How the hell do you end up head first in the snow , so bad you die?
Psstoffgoy Long time ago, there was a lot of free style skiing at Mammoth Mountain (maybe everywhere?). Maybe victim was doing some flips. [Link]
I just look at this stuff and see the potential for knee torque. (shudder)
Psstoffgoy This death sounds like something along the lines of Arkancide. Will have to see if this guy has any connections to the _ _ _ nton foundation
prehistoric I happened to ski where Sonny Bono and whoever Kennedy bought their respective farms within one season of each. The Kennedy kid was obviously his fault, stupid, and no question about it. That tree at Aspen is still out there, all alone, on the last slope, so if you're stupid enough to not watch where you're going, it will kill you. (I've hit well over 60 mph skiing - I was a crazy lad.)
But as obvious as that was what it had to be, Bono's was the opposite. It was in a super tightly packed and stacked forest and there's no way that even the best tree skier in the world could have gotten up enough speed to kill themselves, but that's their story and they're sticking to it.
Rowan Cocoan I remember the Bono incident. I also remember that some comedians (Bob and Tom I think) took the "George of the jungle" song incorporated the name Kennedy followed by "watch out for that tree". Quite funny when you realize the stupidity of the Kennedy incident.
Psstoffgoy Really? My operative theory after I saw that particular stand of trees was that someone was lying in wait - which certainly would have been a more covert method. To me it seemed it would have been so easy for even little old me (spry and fast, though) to have done it with a blackjack and a fallen branch, then ski on out.
Of course it would be just like them to go for the big production scene. Any links? Just your theory?
(Hopefully, that theoretical helicopter would have been at 11K feet; otherwise, at 3K feet it would have been at least 5K below the surface! Per my recollection that place was at about 8K feet.)
Here's one from March 2020. Poor girl ends up headfirst buried in snow where it appears that she did a super-faceplant in super yielding snow. Scary shit, though to the uninformed, it can look funny. [Link]
Yupo:
free style skiing at Mammoth Mountain
I'm sure that there still is. (I LOVE Mammoth!) I first skied it in the winters of 1980/81 and 1981/82. About five times total and over ten times since. But if you want to see the crazies free styling, go up and over to Heavenly.
The problem here, as POG states is that the stupid article (BFM!) doesn't say. There a damned lot of ways to die on a mountain while skiing, and a damned lot of ways one can die walking down the sidewalk.
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What else than Covid ???
I just look at this stuff and see the potential for knee torque. (shudder)
But as obvious as that was what it had to be, Bono's was the opposite. It was in a super tightly packed and stacked forest and there's no way that even the best tree skier in the world could have gotten up enough speed to kill themselves, but that's their story and they're sticking to it.
R.C.
Of course it would be just like them to go for the big production scene. Any links? Just your theory?
(Hopefully, that theoretical helicopter would have been at 11K feet; otherwise, at 3K feet it would have been at least 5K below the surface! Per my recollection that place was at about 8K feet.)
RC
Yupo: I'm sure that there still is. (I LOVE Mammoth!) I first skied it in the winters of 1980/81 and 1981/82. About five times total and over ten times since. But if you want to see the crazies free styling, go up and over to Heavenly.
The problem here, as POG states is that the stupid article (BFM!) doesn't say. There a damned lot of ways to die on a mountain while skiing, and a damned lot of ways one can die walking down the sidewalk.
R