A 14-year-old British schoolboy died in a horrible ski accident during half a vacation with his family in northern Italy.
Despite wearing a helmet, the teenager suffered serious breast injuries after losing control of slopes and crashing in a tree.
Paramedics fought frantically to save him for more than half an hour with the help of a defibrillator, but he was tragically pronounced on the spot on the spot.
His destroyed parents watched in fear while care providers fought in vain to breathe new life into their son, according to reports from the Italian media.
The accident happened on the Falzarego Red Run, a slope on a medium level that spans 3.5 km from Lagazuoi to Col Gallina.
Witnesses say that the boy had built up a considerable speed before he hit a dip that launched him uncontrollably, causing him to pour in a tree at a high impact.
Francesco Cataldo Giorgi, vice -president of the Happy Ski School in Cortina, described the tragic event as 'a matter of cruel bad luck'.
'If he had fallen only a few meters earlier or later, he may have escaped unharmed.
A British schoolboy, 14, suffered severe breast injuries after losing control of the slopes and crashing in a tree on the Red Run of Falzarego, a slope for medium
“But in this sport a wrong fall in the wrong place can be fatal.
“We always have to exercise extreme caution,” he told Corriere del Veneto.
The family had been on holiday in the Bolzano region with two other families and had only just started skiing the day when the tragedy unfolded around 9:30 am.
Now, sorrow, the parents of the boy get medical and psychological support while they are confronted with the devastating task of bringing their son's body back to the UK.
Researchers now work to determine whether hidden hazards or unusual characteristics on the slope have played a role in the heartbreaking accident.
The tragedy serves as a grim memory of the dangers of skiing, even for people with experience, while the resort community mourns for the loss of a young life.
It comes after a 19-year-old student tragically lost his life while he ski on a most challenging path of a Massachusetts Mountain last month.
Alex Kemp, from New Jersey, suffered serious head trauma in a ski accident in the Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort in Hancock.
He collapsed tragically to his injuries and was declared dead on January 7.
“Our thoughts and hearts are with his family, his teammates and coaches in high school and everyone who was lucky to know Alex,” said Dusty Lopez, Kemp's cross -country coach, in a statement.
The police received a call of 911 at around 2.39 pm on January 6 with the information about an accident that took place on the left side of the Cutter Trail.
The cutter trail – a 643 -foot Black Diamond Ski Run trail – is considered the 'most difficult' course for expert skiers, according to a Jiminy Peak Trail card.
