It’s always seemed a bit strange to me that an expert skier would slam into a tree hard enough to kill him instantly.
I always wondered that myself.
If he hit a patch of ice, all the experience in the world wouldn't have saved him. A young man who was a ski instructor at a local town ski area did the same thing; hit a patch of ice and ran into a tree.
Seems like someone is just trying to trade on some peoples' tendency to believe in conspiracies to sell a book.
WHen you’re old, it doesn’t take much of a crack on the noggin to do you in. An old highschool teacher of mine died from a golf ball that landed on his head while trying to sink a putt. A kid would’ve been unphased by that.
Shortly after he retired he smacked into a tree at a ski-resort and ended up in a long term coma in a hospital.
Do not recall if he died, but he was there a very long time.
Man was an expert skier. No doubt some Ford stockholders didn't like him at all.
Considering the fact that you can be running 35 to 50 Mph down a slope, make a small mistake and hit a tree … death usually ensues.
People die from falling from stepladders. I'm not a skier, but it seems reasonable that uneven terrain could cause a skier to miscalculate the path he intended to negotiate between trees on a fast downhill slope. Slamming into a solid tree at twenty miles an hour has to be lethal considering that people break bones from slipping on an icy sidewalk.
Ted Gunderson should go back to Fargo and beg Marge to talk some sense into him.