Brit Boarder Killed in Chamonix Fall

A 24 year old British season worker has been killed after falling 100 meters while snowboarding off-piste on Mont Blanc. Daniel Ramage, a passionate snowboarder from the rural village of Nettlecombe in Dorset had been in France since December. M. Ramage was with a friend at the time of the accident.

The pair had headed off-piste after heavy snowfall. They were both wearing helmets and took a route they knew well but had become slightly disoriented. M. Ramage started to traverse across the mountain when he hit a tree, tumbled and fell. On reaching M. Ramage his friend could not feel a pulse and tried to cardiac massage and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation until the arrival of rescue services whom he had contacted by mobile phone. The snowboarder was dead on arrival at Chamonix hospital.

Posted by davidof on Saturday, 16 April, 2005 at 09:44 PM