"Industry NewsA viral video has been making its rounds on social media showing a rescue team taking a stretcher down with a first responder sitting on the sled, desperately performing CPR. We are not going to share the video on SnowBrains since it has crystallized that the person being resuscitated did not survive. The victim was a 17-year-old boy with dual Indonesian and Australian citizenship, who had just graduated school in November 2025, and had been on holiday in Nikseo, Japan."
"An employee at the resort contacted police after receiving a call from another skier reporting a person falling on the course. The teenager was found unresponsive and was rushed to hospital by emergency services. Despite everyone's best efforts to save the boy, he later died in hospital. A judicial autopsy conducted on January 9 determined the cause of death to be suffocation due to compression of the neck. Police said there were no other injuries or signs of trauma."
On January 7 at about 3:50 p.m., a 17-year-old dual Indonesian-Australian student was skiing at Niseko Tokyu Grand Hirafu Ski Resort in Kutchan Town. He was skiing near the boundary between Grand Hirafu and Hanazono, alone at the time, amid heavy snowfall. He apparently did not see a boundary rope stretched roughly 10 meters between poles and skied into it at speed. Resort staff and bystanders performed CPR and emergency services transported him to hospital, where he later died. A judicial autopsy on January 9 found suffocation due to neck compression and police reported no other trauma. Authorities are investigating rope placement and course layout.
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