British Snowboarder Dies at Verbier

by The Editors on March 3, 2009

Article-1158878-03Bb3D25000005Dc-798 224X423.JpgRob Williams, the 29-year-old founder of British online music equipment retailer Dolphin Music died Sunday March 1, 2009 at Verbier after falling more than 60 feet off a cliff, according to a story in the Daily Mail.

[Williams] and Jason Tavaria, also 29, had become separated from friends while snowboarding in the resort of Verbier. . . . They were part of a group of London-based entrepreneurs attending a conference. . . . Mr Williams’s body was discovered by search teams late on Monday, shortly after they found his mobile phone. . . .Local police confirmed that he had fallen 66 feet onto a bed of rocks.

Williams was in Verbier with Michelle Dewberry, the winner of the BBC show The Apprentice.

[Link: Daily Mail]

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