The 26-year-old snowboarder died after being buried in an avalanche on a closed black diamond slope in eastern Switzerland.

Sophie Hediger, a Swiss Olympic snowboarder, was killed Monday after she was caught in an avalanche in Arosa, Switzerland.

Hediger's death came less than four years after another Olympic snowboarder died in the Swiss Alps during an avalanche. In 2021, Julie Pomagalski, a former Olympic snowboarder from France, was 40 years old. Four people were freeriding together when the avalanche happened, the French federation said. Pomagalski's guide also died.