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Archive Home > 2009 > May > 30 > Snowboarding champion Ruby dies in climbing fall

Snowboarding champion Ruby dies in climbing fall

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
May 30, 2009

CHAMONIX, France — Karine Ruby, a former Olympic snowboarding champion who had been training to become a mountain guide, died Friday in a climbing accident on Mont Blanc. She was 31.

Ruby was roped to other climbers when she and some members of the group fell into a deep crack in the....

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