A Skier Idiot. RIP Shane McConkey, Skiing’s Greatest Nut 1969-2009

A Skier Idiot. RIP Shane McConkey, Skiing’s Greatest Nut 1969-2009

By David LaPlante • on April 2, 2009

It’s the call we’ve anticipated, yet somehow we never expected to get. A ski BASE jump gone bad and the friend-turned-living-legend lives no more. He is just legend now. Skiing has lost it’s greatest nut. Family, friends and fans across the world all mourn to an extent Shane would have been shocked to have known. And our hearts ache for his wife

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