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Fatality — Mount Washington, Jun 3, 2001

·Mount Washington·The Chute (Tuckerman Ravine)

Hillary Manion, 22, a ski patroller from Ottawa, Ontario

On June 3, 2001, around 2 p.m., Hillary Manion, 22, a ski patroller from Ottawa, Ontario, was skiing with a group of Canadian ski patrollers and had just dropped into the hourglass-shaped Chute in Tuckerman Ravine on Mount Washington when she fell and tumbled about 500 feet to the bottom, knocked unconscious. She suffered an open skull fracture, was not wearing a helmet, and stopped breathing while rescuers were carrying her down the mountain. Per SKI Magazine, citing the NH Department of Fish and Game.

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