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Parkite dies skydiving

Adventurous and spirited, he 'was like a living Warren Miller film'

by Jay Hamburger OF THE RECORD STAFF

The Park Record Article Launched:10/02/2007 04:03:55 PM MDT

Erin Price remembers her brother skiing almost every day at The Canyons, his BASE-jumping exploits and his time last summer on a glacier in Alaska. Park City, where Christopher Price grew up, suited his love for the outdoors and extreme sports well.

"He was just a very spirited, adventurous person. Live for the moment," she remembers about her brother, who was killed at 26 years old in a skydiving accident outside of Moab on Sunday, four days before his birthday.

Price, who went by the name 'Race,' was born and raised in Park City, graduating from Park City High School and embracing the city's many sporting options. His sister describes him as an "adrenaline junky." He BASE jumped in Idaho, competed in Nordic combined events when he was younger and, his sister remembers, always climbed trees as a kid. He once had aspirations to be in the Winter Olympics as a Nordic combined athlete, a challenging discipline of cross-country skiing and ski jumping, his favored competition from when he was a kid until he was 20 years old.

"He had the kind of adventurous spirit to live life to the fullest," his sister says, recalling his trips to Southeast Asia and Europe.

Price skydived for more than three years, and his sister says he had jumped at least 150 times. He traveled to Moab for a 300-person skydiving event, called the Mother of All Boogies, with an acronym of MOAB. His sister says he was excited to jump on Sunday, and he was accompanying his best friend on the skydive. Kim Neal, a sergeant in the Grand County Sheriff's Office, says Price departed Canyonlands Field at about 11 a.m. with 23 skydivers on board. They wore wing suits, with extra material on the sides, and jumped from the plane at an altitude of 17,500 feet, or 13,000 feet above the ground. The others landed, but Price did not arrive at the landing spot within 10 minutes of the others. Two friends searched for him, and the Sheriff's Office received a call at 11:48 a.m. The authorities offered the friends an all-terrain vehicle to look for Price. They found his body.

"They never did see him in trouble," Neal says. A medical examiner is investigating, and the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board were contacted. Neal says the Sheriff's Office is not conducting a criminal probe into the death, but the case remains under investigation. He says the investigators want to determine why the parachute did not open. His sister says Price's parachute did not open, and an emergency chute did not deploy.

Family and friends plan to hold a memorial on Thursday, which would have been his 27th birthday. The three-hour memorial is planned at the Forum at The Canyons at 3 p.m. The family requests people donate to a memorial fund at U.S. Bank in lieu of flowers.

An obituary submitted to The Park Record describes Price as an "amazing role model to all" and a "beautiful soul." "His incredibly spirited personality drove him to live each day to its fullest and he never looked back in regret," the obituary says. "This bright and talented person brought so much light and positive energy into the lives of all who knew and loved him."

His sister likens his life to those of the people who star in adventure-sport movies. "He was like a living Warren Miller film," she says.