TELLURIDE, Colo – Yeah, the title is very accurate. I can honestly say I have never heard of anyone dying this way. Fifty-year-old Mary Scott King was heli-skiing with a guide in the Mineral Creek Basin. For those of you who about to Google “heli-skiing,” it is simply backcountry downhill skiing in which a helicopter is used to get a skier to their starting point. Anyway, on their way down, King attempted to cross a creek and ended up falling in. The “freak” part of this accident is that her helmet became wedged in between two rocks, firmly holding her face under the water. Her guide was unable to free her and King drowned. This is also another way that I will add to my list of “Ways I Will Never Die.” “Drowning While Heli-Skiing” will go right along with “Bungee Cord Snapped,” “Parachute Didn’t Open,” and “Eaten by Great White Shark While Snorkeling off the Coast of South Africa”. I know, it may seem as if I am not out there “living,” but until you can add “Bleeding to Death After Having Genitals Eaten Off by Neglected, Vengeful Cat While Trapped By Collapsed Stack Of Entertainment Weeklys” to your list of probable deaths, you can shut the hell up.
Tags: Backcountry skiing, Drowning, freak accident, heli-skiing, Helicopter, Skiing
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