
Swiss Olympic snowboarder Sophie Hediger died in an avalanche on Monday. She was 26.
Hediger, who competed at the 2022 Beijing Olympics as a member of Switzerland’s national snowboard cross team, died in an avalanche in the Swiss Alps. The 26-year-old was snowboarding with another person in Arosa, a village in east Switzerland, when they left the slope and were caught in an avalanche, The New York Times reports.