North Peak (file photo: Keystone Ski Resort)

Skier from Georgia Found Dead in Trees at Keystone

Keystone, CO – A 58-year-old Georgia man died of blunt force trauma following an incident while skiing on Sunday morning at Keystone Resort in Colorado.

North Peak (file photo: Keystone Ski Resort)
North Peak (file photo: Keystone Ski Resort)

Odo Lessacher, of Griffin, Ga., was found in the trees near the intersection of the intermediate Alamo and Prospector runs on North Peak at Keystone, according to Summit County Coroner Joanne Richardson.

Other skiers notified ski patrol, and patrollers administered CPR before Lessacher was declared deceased by a Care Flight nurse. According to Richardson, Lessacher died of internal bleeding secondary to blunt force trauma to the chest. It has not yet been confirmed that Lessacher collided with a tree.

Sunday’s deadly incident was the second in as many weeks at Keystone. Late last month a 58-year-old who died of a fractured neck was found by a passerby on the resort’s intermediate Jacques St. James trail on Dercum Mountain.

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