Death:Death by Accident 8 September 2002 (Age 23) chart Placidus Equal_H.
French snowboarder and mountaineer who hailed from a climbing family; his father was a mountain guide and his brother had died in an avalanche in Chamonix. He was the first to descend Mount Everest on a snowboard in 2001 via the Norton Couloir. On 8 September 2002, he disappeared after making his second successful Everest summit, while attempting to snowboard the Hornbein Couloir. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less