Posted on 11/17/2011 1:26:18 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
A world record-holding professional skier who once famously jumped off a 255-foot cliff jump died in a weekend avalanche in Utah while on a steep slope at a closed resort.
Jamie Pierre, 38, was swept over a cliff Sunday at Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort in the Wasatch mountains about 30 miles southeast of Salt Lake City.
Pierre was snowboarding one of Snowbird's steepest slopes with a friend when he was sent cartwheeling over a cliff after he triggered the late afternoon slide, the Utah Avalanche Center reported.
It was the season's first avalanche fatality in the U.S., authorities said.
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RIP.
I wonder about calling these things accidents as they are typically high risk activities designed to challenge danger.
Do you think “living on the edge” may lead over the edge? While one may feel sorry for the family and friends, it is hard to find a lot of sympathy for the intrepid adventurer.
He challenged danger, and he lost. End of story.
“A a world record-holding professional skier who once famously jumped off a 255-foot cliff...”
Parents to kids: “If a world record-holding professional skier jumped famously off a 255-foot cliff would you do it too?”.
Maybe that’s the reason it was closed...
What, did they close the canyon? Or just Snowbird?
“Do you think “living on the edge” may lead over the edge? While one may feel sorry for the family and friends, it is hard to find a lot of sympathy for the intrepid adventurer.”
Two kids without a dad now... I assume that they are young, if not, they were probably young when he skied off that cliff and somehow lived. I gave some up some “adventurous” stuff when I had kids. I may pick up that stuff again now that they’ve mostly grown up.
Bottom line, if you really want to press your luck, don’t have kids (at the time).
What a waste. I’m sorry for the loss to his family and friends.
I agree.
In my younger life I did things (cave exploration, cliff climbing etc...) that as I got older and wiser, would never do today.
Back then I didn’t think....today I do.
Sounds like an adrenaline junkie who lost. Very sad for his kids.
But, hey,
...he died doing what he loved...
was I the first to say it?
You keep flirting with death and sooner or later you will get a date.
Live fast, die young, leave a frozen corpse.
From what I read, after the cliff jump 5 years ago he dialed back the extreme element of his sport....
..he had just taken a job with this resort....and the day he died was out having fun with a friend....
..actually on a snowboard....and the fluke snowlide happened.
The guy sounds grounded in his Chrisitanity and folks say he was a really good guy.
Did anyone read any of this.....I think you should.
Stupid is as stupid does. He has made the ulitmate assumption of responsibility for the consequences of poor decision making.
Gotta thin the herd somehow.
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