Ruby won a gold medal in the giant slalom at the 1998 Nagano Olympics and a silver in the parallel giant slalom at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games.

She was a six-time world champion with 65 snowboard World Cup victories.

She retired after the 2006 Turin Olympics, where she was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the snowboardcross event.

Ruby had since been working toward becoming a mountain guide and was expected to finish her training in the coming weeks.

It is such a shame and only serves to remind us how short life sometimes is.

Such risk-takers. I have no affinity for them but I'm sad that she came to this fate. She would have enjoyed being a 'mountain guide'. Our choices. How important they are!

Thanks for the clip. I probably wouldn't have seen it anywhere else.