Professional skier Jamie Pierre was killed Sunday afternoon by an avalanche he triggered while he and a friend were snowboarding at Utah's Snowbird Ski Resort. The resort had not yet opened for the season and conditions throughout the area were hazardous in the aftermath of a major storm. Pierre, 39, a backcountry specialist who had appeared in numerous films and in 2006 set a world record with a 255-foot cliff jump, was swept hundreds of feet over a rocky cliff at Snowbird's South Chute area. Source:Grind TV
