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Freeskier Aymar Navarro Breaks Shoulder in 2 Spots During Freeride World Tour Event, Shares Update on Recovery

https://www.instagram.com/p/CbmPTrus8ed/ While competing at the Xtreme Verbier stop on the Freeride World Tour last Saturday, freeskier Aymar Navarro took a crash.  A big one.  The Spanish freeskier was hitting a triple cliff during the event when he lost control of his ski on the landing of the third cliff and tumbled over rocks. He briefly lost concisousness before being taken […]

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SnowBrains | March 29, 2022
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Park City, UT Freeskier Mikayla Willis in ICU After Crash During Freeride World Qualifier

Mikayla Willis took a terrible crash at the Freeride World Qualifier in Big Sky, Montana on Wednesday and was taken by ambulance and two Life Flight helicopters to an ICU in Billings, Montana, The Salt Lake Tribune reports. Eric Praetorius, her ski coach,  told KPCW that “she has very severe injuries.” According to a GoFundMe post, the 17-year-old freeskier’s injuries include […]

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SnowBrains | March 29, 2022
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‘About a Dozen’ Uncontrolled Falls Reported in Tuckerman Ravine, NH Last Weekend—700-Foot Fall Over Large Cliff Caught on Video

  View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Mt Washington Avalanche Center (@mwacenter) On March 26, the Mt. Washington Avalanche Center team witnessed about a dozen long, uncontrolled falls in Tuckerman Ravine, New Hampshire. Multiple resulted in injuries. One person tumbled roughly 700-feet over a large cliff. The MWAC reports that the falling skier in the video […]

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SnowBrains | March 28, 2022
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Why This Ski Season Has Seen More Fatal In-Bounds Crashes

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This season has been off to a rocky start in many ways. Many resorts have been dealing with the lack of snow across the nation, as well as an increase in fatal crashes. Ski resorts all across the country have been in a drought. This winter has been exceptionally dry of late, and on top of it, areas have seen […]

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Aunika Skogen | February 15, 2022
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Mont Blanc Plane Crash Treasure Finally Split with Discoverer

In 2013, while ascending Mont Blanc in France, a French climber came across a container amongst a plane crash wreckage filled with an assortment of precious stones. Complying with French law, the finding was handed over to the local authorities. It wasn’t until this year, eight years later, that individual was finally rewarded with half of the gems, valued at […]

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Jake Vigesaa | December 9, 2021
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Pro Freeskier Bobby Brown Shares Update on Recovery After Spine-Breaking Injury

  View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Bobby (@bobbybrown) Colorado native, Olympian, and the first person to ever land a Switch Double Misty 1440, Bobby Brown, was training in a terrain park at Saas-Fee ski resort in Switzerland in September when he over-rotated a switch 900 to his back and fractured his spine. He was flown […]

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CrashBrains | November 30, 2021
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Casey Kelly Making an Instant Impact for Ole Miss Football After Recovering From Ski Injury

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The University of Mississippi, or Ole Miss, is one of the premier schools in the nation for college football. Led and coached by Lane Kiffin, the Ole Miss Rebels are currently ranked twelfth in the country and have a star-studded roster. Of their many stars, Casey Kelly is a name that is beginning to ring bells after a series of […]

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Jesse | October 22, 2021
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Professional Freeskier Bobby Brown Breaks Spine Training in Saas Fee, Switzerland Terrain Park

  View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Bobby (@bobbybrown) Bobby Brown—professional freeskier, back-to-back X Games champion, and the first person ever to have landed a Switch Double Misty 1440—has had a rough past couple of weeks. The Colorado native was training in a terrain park at Saas Fee ski resort in Switzerland when he over-rotated a […]

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SnowBrains | October 20, 2021
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