STATESVILLE, N.C. — (AP) — Officials in western Montana have released the name of a Colorado skier who died last week while skiing outside the boundary of the Lost Trail Ski Area on the Montana-Idaho border.
William Benjamin “Ben” Brown of Denver died of hypothermia, Ravalli County Sheriff and Coroner Steve Holton said Thursday.
Brown, 25, had left a group of friends and was skiing alone when he went missing on Jan. 13, Holton said.
Lost Trail Ski Patrol found his body the next day on the Idaho side of the Continental Divide.
Brown grew up in Statesville, North Carolina, and graduated from Statesville High School in 2014, according to his obituary.
Memorial services are planned in Statesville, according to Nicholson Funeral Home.
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