A former NCAA American skier died on Saturday in an accident on the slopes of the Grand Lake Tahoe region, the authorities announced.
Ellery “Ellie” Curtis, 26, from San Francisco, suffered a head injury and was declared dead at the Palisades Tahoe Resort in Olympic Valley, according to the Sheriff department of the Comté to place.
The Sheriff department received a distress call at 3:45 p.m., but Curtis was already dead when the deputies arrived, according to the Sheriff Elise Soviar spokesperson.
Sheriff managers provided no other details and gave requests for information to Palisades Tahoe.
The ski resort did not answer Times’ questions, but said in a statement that they were “deeply saddened” by the accident and called Curtis as “beloved skier”.
Matt Lorelli, editor -in -chief for skiing and complex digital site powderwrote that Curtis has undergone serious injuries while going down an Ahhh chute, “a difficult path” on the famous lifting Kt-22 of Palisades.
Curtis’ death is one of the three deaths that have occurred in the region in the past two weeks.
On March 29, Roman Lacayo, a resident of Corona, died in a snowboard accident at the ski resort of Kirkwood and Adelyn Grimes, a 7 -year -old resident, Reno, was killed by a rock falling at the Diamond Peak ski resort in incline village.
While frequenting the Dartmouth College, Curtis was a second All-American team in the giant slalom, placing Eighth at the NCAA Championships In March 2022 in Park City, Utah. The father of Curtis, the uncle and a cousin also attended the Ivy League school.
“Ellie Curtis was a worker, passionate and motivated student whose passions were going beyond snow,” said her coaches in Dartmouth, John C. Dwyer and Anny Jenny, in an e-mail. “Ellie was kind, attentive and loved to be involved in many environmental organizations and projects.”
Curtis was also a triple national college Member of the entirely academic ski teamThis means that it obtained a cumulative weighted average of 3.5 and participated in one of the three regional NCAA championships.
Curtis worked as an analyst for California Public Utilities Commission, according to his Linkedin profile.
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