this news completely ruined my day too. tomorrow in school its gonna be even worse.  Such an awesome figure that represented what the sport of extreme skiing really was, left, the face of our earth at just the age of 41, on a routine base jump.  how can a man like him, who has done nothing wrong, but help us all realize who we are, and inspire us to be who we want to be, and just be the symbol for extreme skiing, be taken away from our hearts like this?  i guess that God thought that he had completed his journey not only for himself, but also for his family, this not including his wife and daughter, but the whole ski community that has suffered by this tragic loss.
i had to stop about 6 times writing this bcuz it was so emotional. no joke