Tuesday’s death of a Freeride World Tour champion in Switzerland returned a spotlight to the safety of extreme skiing, coming less than a week after a Utah man snowboarding with a Haines heli-ski outfit was caught in an avalanche on the Takhin Massif.
Estelle Balet, a 21-year-old Swiss snowboarder who won the women’s snowboarding Freeride World Tour championship this year, died in an avalanche in the Swiss Alps Tuesday morning.
Balet competed in the Haines…
