Ski mountaineer Kip Garre dies in avalanche

[Nick]

http://sports.espn.go.com/action/freeskiing/news/story?id=6445398&asd

Accomplished skier, guide and mountaineer Kip Garre, along with his girlfriend Allison Kreutzen, were killed in an avalanche near Lone Pine, Calif. on Tuesday, April 26. Their bodies were found Thursday in a search and rescue mission after friends became alarmed that they had not heard from the pair, who had set out three days ago to ski the Split Couloir in the eastern Sierra.

Garre, 38, was based in Squaw Valley but traveled the world to climb and ski remote mountains in places like Pakistan, Alaska, and Antarctica.

Just caught this on Twitter. I hadn't actually heard of the guy, but it sounds like his reputation precedes him... was a K2 athlete, born in New Hampshire.

Hate to see something like this happen to anyone.

 

[JimG.]

Hate to see something like this happen to anyone.

Me too, but...

it's part of the territory for these athletes. And part of the attraction to skiing those technical slopes.

 

[Angus]

Lone Pine is Mt. Whitney. sad.

 

[snowmonster]

Rip

Edit: The nanny feature on this site won't even let me write the acronyms for Rest In Peace. I am not happy aboout this.

 

[powers]

I met Kip thru my friend when he was at PSC. I did a few mtb rides and races with him back in the day and lost track of him. I'll be thinking about him and his girl friend tomorrow on the rock pile.

 

[kingslug]

Something to think about on my trip to Tucks next Sunday...this sudden turn to spring has caused many avi's recently...

 

[Nick]

AFAIK here are no filters for that

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[Nick]

Wonder if if was a minimum char requirement

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