On Monday night, late night television host Jimmy Kimmel took some time to talk about the emotional birth of his son Billy last week.  Kimmel’s son Billy was born with a heart condition in which one pulmonary valve was completely blocked and there was a small hole in the wall between the left and right sides of his heart.

Turns out that Shaun White had suffered from the same heart condition. The Olympian traveled down to Kimmel’s show from Mammoth Mountain this week to share his story.

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Tim Konrad, founder of Unofficial Networks, is a skier with over 20 years in the ski industry. Starting the blog in 2006 from Lake Tahoe with his brother John, the website has grown into one of the world’s...