Action sports star dies in skydiving accident, Erik Roner, a acclaimed activity sports amateur who starred in MTV's Nitro Circus, died Monday in a skydiving blow at Squaw Valley, according to the Placer County Sheriff’s Department.
Roner, 39, from Tahoe City, a able skier and BASE jumper, was asleep while assuming at a golf accident at the resort.
According to the sheriff’s department, Roner was allotment of a accumulation administering a skydiving performance. He hit a timberline while attempting to acreage and was arresting asleep at the scene. No one abroad was injured.
Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows Resort aswell issued a account acknowledging Roner's death. The golf accident was hosted in Olympic Valley by The Squaw Valley Institute, an alignment to which Roner consistently committed his time, the account said.
According to his bio on the Nitro Circus website, Roner had been sky diving and BASE jumping back 2000. He was one of the antecedents of ski BASE jumping and had been featured in several ski films.
"Every time you travel, your accurate colors appear out. I consistently growing up capital to biking the apple on skis and see what there was out there," he said in a 2011 account with Freeskier Magazine. "It's a abundant life. I wouldn't barter it for annihilation in the world."
Last year Roner fabricated a video of himself angry to 90 helium balloons aerial through the sky sitting on a backyard chair, recreating the arena from the cine "Up". The YouTube video had added than 800,000 views.
Roner is survived by his wife and two children.
Roner, 39, from Tahoe City, a able skier and BASE jumper, was asleep while assuming at a golf accident at the resort.
According to the sheriff’s department, Roner was allotment of a accumulation administering a skydiving performance. He hit a timberline while attempting to acreage and was arresting asleep at the scene. No one abroad was injured.
Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows Resort aswell issued a account acknowledging Roner's death. The golf accident was hosted in Olympic Valley by The Squaw Valley Institute, an alignment to which Roner consistently committed his time, the account said.
According to his bio on the Nitro Circus website, Roner had been sky diving and BASE jumping back 2000. He was one of the antecedents of ski BASE jumping and had been featured in several ski films.
"Every time you travel, your accurate colors appear out. I consistently growing up capital to biking the apple on skis and see what there was out there," he said in a 2011 account with Freeskier Magazine. "It's a abundant life. I wouldn't barter it for annihilation in the world."
Last year Roner fabricated a video of himself angry to 90 helium balloons aerial through the sky sitting on a backyard chair, recreating the arena from the cine "Up". The YouTube video had added than 800,000 views.
Roner is survived by his wife and two children.
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