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Shane McConkey

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Legendary big mountain skier and BASE jumper Shane McConkey lost his life while performing a ski BASE jump off the Sass Pardoi cliff in the Dolomite Mountains in Italy on March 26, 2009.

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A pioneer of the ski-BASE-ing phenomenon, Shane experienced problems in the air after launching off a cliff with the expectation of deploying his parachute canopy and then gliding down to the ground-as he had done successfully some 700-plus times before. Shane was…

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