Overview
- Guests found a 59-year-old man unresponsive around 12:20 p.m. on Jan. 7 on The Grizz, a black-diamond run in Keystone’s Outback area.
- Bystanders began CPR before Keystone Ski Patrol delivered advanced life-saving efforts and moved the patient to a helicopter landing zone.
- Flight for Life airlifted him to CommonSpirit St. Anthony Summit Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
- The Summit County Sheriff’s Office opened an investigation, and the coroner will determine the official cause and manner of death and release the man’s identity later.
- Officials said the skier was wearing a helmet, and Sheriff Jaime FitzSimons offered condolences to the family and friends affected.