It is with heavy harts that we report that skiing icons J.P. Auclair and Andreas Fransson have passed away in an avalanche on the border between Argentina and Chile in Patagonia..
BioBio reported that Auclair and Fransson were climbing Monte San Lorenzo at the time of the accident. The group was filming a new project, which according to Fransson’s Facebook page, was a new webisode series called Apogee Skiing.
The region the group was climbing in is very remote and mountainous. BioBio states the location is 18 hours from the nearest city, and a two hour flight just to the base of the trail. A rescue operation takes up to 13 hours to reach the area of the avalanche.