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It’s a heartbreaking day for the ski group as we study of the passing of Kasha Rigby. The Stowe, Vermont native was swept up in a small avalanche at Brezovica Resort on February 13. Situations had been difficult that afternoon, with overcast skies and chilly temps. The avalanche started on the cornice, sending Rigby right into a high-force collision with bushes. Regardless of her companion Magnus Wolfe shortly reaching her and making an attempt resuscitation, Rigby sadly handed resulting from traumatic accidents.
Rigby was a power within the ski group. She started telemark snowboarding as an adolescent, and at 22, she left Stowe for Crested Butte, Colorado, to compete in racing and extreme-skiing comps. From there, her accomplishments began stacking up shortly. “Rigby joined The North Face group in 1995, the place she skied by means of the US, Canada, South America, New Zealand, Russia, Asia, Europe, India and the Center East. She skied first descents on most of the world’s most revered peaks, together with the 5 Holy Peaks in Mongolia. She telemarked off the highest of Cho Oyu with Hilaree Nelson and Willie Benegas in 2005, which was solely the second and third time an 8000m peak had been skied by American ladies,” writes Mary McIntyre in Rigby’s memorial.
Over the previous couple of years, Rigby had taken day without work from snowboarding and was actively working to supply earthquake aid in Katmandu and help the World Meals Program with the Rohingya refugee disaster in Bangladesh.