College athlete dies from tragic accident on ski resort’s most difficult trail
A 19-year-old undergrad passed on Tuesday in Massachusetts after a skiing mishap.
Alex Kemp, a Williams School rookie from New Jersey, was skiing at the Jiminy Pinnacle Mountain Resort in Hancock, Massachusetts on Monday when the episode occurred, the Berkshire Province Lead prosecutor’s Office said in an official statement.
Authorities got an emergency call at 2:39 p.m. Monday about the mishap, which occurred on the left half of Shaper Trail.
“The guest showed that Mr. Kemp had gone over a bank and seemed to have experienced huge head injury,” as indicated by the delivery.
Ski watch were quickly dispatched to the scene and paramedics attempted to save Kemp.
He was moved to the Berkshire Clinical Center and afterward moved to Baystate Clinical Community for additional consideration, yet he capitulated to his wounds and was articulated dead on Tuesday.
Kemp was wearing a cap at the hour of the mishap, the Lead prosecutor’s Office said, adding, “There is no sign that medications or liquor were engaged with the occurrence.”
The Shaper Trail is a dark jewel trail named “generally troublesome” and for master skiers, as indicated by a Jiminy Pinnacle trail map.
Alex Kemp was skiing at the Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort in Hancock, Massachusetts on Monday when the incident happened.@ alexkemp13/Instagram
Kemp, an eager sprinter, came to Williams School from Christian Siblings Foundation in New Jersey, in the wake of being selected to the crosscountry group, college president Maud Mandel said in a proclamation on Wednesday.
“Alex was daring and unbelievably spurred as a sprinter, both in preparing and rivalry. However, in any event, when he didn’t have his own greatest day, he took true bliss and pride in seeing partners get along admirably,” his crosscountry mentor Dusty Lopez said in the college’s proclamation.
“Our considerations and hearts are with his family, his secondary school colleagues and mentors, and every other person who was sufficiently fortunate to know Alex,” Lopez proceeded.
The late understudy likewise sought to finish a doctorate in software engineering and was concentrating on political theory and financial matters.
Officials received a 911 call at 2:39 p.m. Monday about the accident, which took place on the left side of Cutter Trail. @ alexkemp13/Instagram
“Alex was one of the strongest students I’ve taught in 21 years at the college,” Dukes Love, a professor of economics who taught Kemp, said in the statement.
Skiers at enjoy a nice day at Jiminy Peak ski area Friday, Feb. 7, 2014 in Hancock, Mass.Albany Times Union via Getty Image.
Kemp’s own words in his college application essay included, “Everyone needs someone to root for them and to remind them to always root for themselves.”
“That was the spirit described by so many people who knew him,” Mandel concluded in the university’s statement.