A 60-YEAR-OLD man has died in an accident at the Valdezcaray ski slopes in La Rioja, emergency services report.
The victim, a local man – from Albelda de Iregua, in another part of the land-locked northern wine region – was skiing on the 'black' slope, the most difficult of four and to which entry is only permitted to the most experienced and competent.
Many ski resorts do not even have black slopes, with only green (nursery), blue (intermediate) and red (advanced) open.
Paramedics were called to the scene at around 14.30 on Wednesday, where they found the man in cardiac arrest due to the severity of the accident.
They gave him CPR for over 30 minutes, to no avail, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Serious – let alone fatal – accidents at ski resorts tend to be extremely rare, and those that do occur tend to happen to people skiing off-piste or to very experienced skiers on black slopes.
Photograph taken by the Valdezcaray ski resort in La Rioja
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