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Elyse Saugstad

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 17, 2024
Entity authorityQ5368538 ↗
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Elyse Saugstad is an American professional free skier. She was the 2008 Freeride World Champion. Saugstad gained additional prominence after surviving the 2012 Tunnel Creek avalanche. She credits her survival to her use of an avalanche airbag that she deployed when the slide started.

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This entry incorporates text from “Elyse Saugstad” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.