Posted on 01/30/2021 9:07:33 AM PST by BenLurkin
Around noon, the mountain’s ski patrol responded to a report of an unconscious male skier who had been found upside down in deep snow near where the Redwing and Hully Gully trails intersect, according to a Friday statement from Mammoth Mountain Ski Area. The location is near Chair 8 out of Canyon Lodge.
Other resort guests were already working to dig the skier out of the snow when the patrol arrived. They began CPR and also used an automated external defibrillator on the down skier because he didn’t have a pulse, according to the statement from the mountain.
The skier was then rushed to Mammoth Hospital where he was later pronounced dead. Authorities have not identified the man, describing him only as a 52-year-old from Oceanside.
A cause of death was not immediately known but is “related to the snow in some way,”...
No further details were provided about the incident. The Sheriff’s Office also reported Friday that a 55-year-old Michigan man died after being found unresponsive in a vehicle that was discovered buried in snow in a parking lot in Mammoth Lakes.
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Snovid
Fauci says to wear a mask.
medical examiner said sonny was an excellent skier he could ski backwards but could’nt understand why he skied into the tree 3 times sonny was in charge of the WJC impeachment committee
Is that the skier that disappeared while skiing for his life on Mount St Helens?
Yup
rellimpank wrote: “—another victim of the “China Virus”—(sarc)—”
He would be alive today had he not taken the vaccine. —(sarc)—
And worn 4 masks...
Spider Sabich was unavailable for color commentary.
If I had a choice of a way to go it would be in a the snow. But not upside down.
Tragic. This is a gorgeous area, but easy to understand how that kind of wilderness can become treacherous in a split second. It’s just East of Yosemite. We stayed one family vacation after a stay at Yosemite. The area is magnificent.
21 years ago...and just as useless a prediction as every other one made.
—brings back memories—( I was living in Leadville when Claudine did the deed)—
Ha! comedy writing!
another victim of white privilege...
Boy - does that ever go back a long way... When times made some sense unlike today’s world...
a person deep in hypothermia will look dead, with a slow weak pulse.
So you can’t call him dead until you manage to defrost him.
A similar problem is found in those who drown: there is a reflex that slows the heart and you might not find a pulse but the person could revive.
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