Marmot Basin, with Eagle Ridge in the distance. (file photo: FTO/Kevin Gawenus)

Snowboarder Dies in Crash at Marmot Basin

Jasper (AB), Canada – A 21-year-old Alberta man died in an accident on Mar. 9 while snowboarding at Marmot Basin ski area in Jasper National Park.

Marmot Basin, with Eagle Ridge in the distance. (file photo: FTO/Kevin Gawenus)
Marmot Basin, with Eagle Ridge in the distance. (file photo: FTO/Kevin Gawenus)

Christopher Sorensen, of Sherwood Park, a suburb of Edmonton, reportedly caught and edge and crashed into a safety fence lining a groomed run near the top of Marmot’s Eagle Ridge chairlift. Investigating RCMP officers indicate that Sorensen was an experienced rider who was wearing a helmet at the time.

Sorensen and his friends were filming with a portable camera at the time of the incident, which the RCMP has ruled accidental. Sorensen was pronounced dead at an area hospital.

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