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Legendary skier, innovator, friend and all-around industry ruler Shane McConkey passes away.
March 26, 2009, 5:46 PM
By: Tim Mutrie

Graeme Murray/Red Bull Photofiles
Decorated big mountain skier and BASE jumper Shane McConkey was killed earlier today in a ski-BASE accident in the Italian Dolomites.

Shane McConkey
Hometown: Olympic Valley, Cali.
Family:Wife, Sherry; Daughter, Ayla
Nickname: Cliff Huckstable
Sponsors: Red Bull, K2, Sessions, Nordica, Marker, Oakley, Squaw Valley USA
Accolades:
1996, 1998: IFSA World Tour of Freeskiing, World Champ
1999: Winter X Games Skier X, 2nd
2001: Skiing Mag Top 25 Skiers in N.A., 1st
2002, 2005, 2006: Powder Mag Reader’s Poll Awards, 1st
2005: Laureus World Sport Award, Nominee
Film Parts:
1997-2008: Matchstick Productions
‘95, ‘99, ‘00, ‘02: Scott Gaffney Pictures
1999: Teton Gravity Research
2005: Warren Miller Films
A member of the Red Bull Air Force and pioneer of the ski-BASE-ing phenomenon, McConkey experienced problems in the air after launching off a cliff with the expectation of deploying his parachute canopy and then gliding down to the ground—as he had done successfully some 700-plus times before.

“He did a double backflip off the jump and he has these releasable bindings so they come off in the air and then he flies off in his wing suit,” filmmaker Scott Gaffney, a longtime close friend of McConkey’s, told ESPN Action Sports in an interview this afternoon via phone.

“But one ski did not come off. And when that happens the drag on the skis causes you to flip over, so the skis go over your head. So he was struggling with the one ski. Then he also got into a bad spin. So he may have never even pulled his pilot chute. And that’s coming from JT Holmes, who Shane was with in Italy and who reviewed the footage of the accident. So the combination of the ski, the spin and the pilot chute, apparently. Because you can’t throw the pilot chute like that; if you throw it while you’re upside down and it wraps around the ski, you’re done.”

McConkey was filming with Matchstick Productions and Red Bull at the time, according to Gaffney, who said McConkey apparently died on impact with snow on the ground below the cliff. Gaffney was not clear about the size of the cliff. “But it had to be a sizable cliff, at least 400 feet, for him to be planning on flying his wing suit away from it,” Gaffney said.

Thanks to ESPN for all the info. RIP Shane

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