Caroline Johnston, 44, fell to her death at New Zealand’s Whakapapa Resort on Saturday, August 31, 2013 after ducking past warning signs in pursuit of her lost snowboard, according to a story in the Otago Daily Online News.
Constable Conrad Smith of National Park police said the woman was walking back from the West Ridge chairlift towards the Waterfall T-bar in an area known as the Amphitheatre on Saturday when she lost grip of her board. . . It slipped down hill and she went after it. . . “She’s gone past warning signs and dangers signs to look for her board and she’s fallen off a cliff,” Mr Smith said. . . The woman, who had left her friends who she’d been skiing with earlier, fell 15m vertically before tumbling a further 100m-150m.
Johnston was a British-born TV director who had moved to New Zealand in 1999. Our thoughts are with Johnston’s family and friends.
[Link: Otago Daily Online News]
