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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.

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.

Read more: Skier found dead on Whistler Mountain

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

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His name was not released.

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One person dies in backcountry skiing accident near Whistler

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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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