A skier on Mammoth Mountain in California died attempting a steep expert run Thursday, days after a 12-year-old girl fell from a ski lift there.
The skier died after trying a ski run that goes about 1,200 feet vertically from Mammoth Mountain’s 11,000-foot-high summit ridge. The ski run is located at Mammoth Mountain Ski Area, a Mammoth Lake, California, ski resort about 188 miles east of San Francisco, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
The force of the man’s fall popped him out of his skis, and he proceeded to slide headfirst for hundreds of yards after that, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The name of the skier is being held pending the notification of his next of kin. Resort officials told the Los Angeles Times Friday that “life-saving care was administered immediately, and the guest was quickly transported to the care of paramedics. Despite these efforts, we are informed the guest passed away.”
The death comes days after video circulated of a 12-year-old girl out snowboarding on Mammoth Mountain on Jan. 31, dangling from a ski lift and subsequently falling, missing a safety net resort workers and onlookers had placed below.
“It was an incredibly traumatic experience. My daughter miraculously walked away with no broken bones or major injuries,” her mother wrote on social media, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The newspaper did not identify the 12-year-old or her mother.
“At approximately 10:15 a.m. on Saturday, January 31, a female 12-year-old snowboarder mis-loaded Chair 17 … Mammoth Mountain employees rushed to place a pad and net to break her fall. The guest fell before all deceleration devices were in place after holding on for roughly 2 minutes,” resort officials told People.
The girl hit a lift operator during her fall, but neither person suffered significant injuries. The 12-year-old was back on the Mammoth Mountain slopes the day after the fall, resort officials told People.
