Ueli Kestenholz, who won snowboarding's first Olympic medal in 1998, dies in Swiss avalanche

Ueli Kestenholz, a pioneering Swiss snowboarder and bronze medalist from the first Olympic snowboarding event in 1998, tragically died at the age of 50 in an avalanche in the Lötschental valley of Valais, Switzerland. The incident occurred while he was snowboarding with a friend at an altitude of 7,900 feet, and although Kestenholz was rescued, he did not survive.