Billy Poole: Death Anniversary

American people are known for their love on daredevil sports. The more risky the sports is the more trilling and heart pumping the show is. Car racing/drifting, mountain ski, motocross and a lot more are few of the risky sports which most of the men love. Why they do love these kind of stuff?

Speaking of mountain ski, It's the first year death anniversary of Billy Poole, a professional extreme skier died last year January 22, he suffered after jumping off a cliff while filming in Utah with Warren Miller Entertainment. "He got a bad landing and possible hit some rocks", according to the Salt Lake Tribune reports. Billy jumped a cliff, something he had done many times before but this time he hit a small boulder, he was dead--the first skier to die in the production of a Warren Miller ski film.

Billy Poole, age 28, learned to ski in Montana and skiing in the backcountry of Big Cottonwood Canyon, he was living in Salt Lake City. Billy, who came from a working class background, often drove to competitions. Much less sexy, but no less real, than the film footage of him skiing down rugged terrain is the fact that those shots were possible because he hiked those peaks on foot.

The rest of his family, this larger of Billy can be reassuring at times but also hunting and elusive, Billy has gone and become a legend to his nephews, his presence reduced to photographs and stories and extreme skiing movies.

You can view a number of Billy Poole ski videos in YouTube.

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By: Daniela27

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