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She was traveling with her fiancé, Magnus Wolfe Murray, who located her 20 seconds after the avalanche impacted her. He immediately attempted CPR to save her. However, she died within seconds after the avalanche hit. She suffered internal bleeding in her chest and damage to her lungs.
A few days before her death, the celebrated skier shared a photo from her trip and reported that there were dangerous conditions at the ski resort. “Sideways rain, a big melt, and winds too high to run lifts, doesn’t keep these skiers and sledders off the t-bar and slope,” she wrote in her finalInstagram. She was in Kosovo for the Tour de Piste, which recruits expert skiers to navigate popular ski resorts’ unknown ski runs at popular locations.
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At 22 years old, she moved to Crested Butte, Colorado, to compete in telemark racing and extreme-skiing competitions.
In 1995, she joined the North Face Team, and she skied all over the U.S., Canada, South America, New Zealand, Russia, Asia, Europe, India, and the Middle East. During a North Face expedition, she skied the highest peak in Siberia on the border of Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, and China. She also skied the Mongolian Five Holy Peaks.
She made history as one of three American women to ski an 8000m peak, which she did with Hilaree Nelson and Willie Benegas at the top of Cho Oyu in the Himalayas.
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In 2015, she competed in the National Geographic series,Ultimate Survival Alaska, and earned second place.
She also assisted with the Rohingya refugee crisis and worked with the World Food Program in Bangladesh for three years.
source: people.com
