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Snowboarder dies after falling off cliff at Whistler Blackcomb

Whistler Mountain is seen in this file photo. Steven Olmstead

A snowboarder in his mid-20s has died in Whistler after falling off a cliff.

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Police said they received the call at about 10:20 a.m. on Thursday to assist BC Ambulance.

RCMP arrived at a Whistler health clinic to discover that the local man had already succumbed to his injuries.

He’d been in the alpine at the top of the Peak chair when he fell approximately 20 metres off a cliff, police said.

His name was not released.

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It’s B.C.’s third ski-hill fatality in the space of a week, after a woman died at the Big White resort in the Okanagan and a man lost his life at Mount Washington on Vancouver Island.

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