Naperville Central High School freshman Aleksas “Alex” Beiga was one of three people that died in an avalanche in Switzerland on Monday.
In this handout photo provided by Kantonspolizei Wallis via Keystone, Rescuers work on a site of an avalanche fell on the Riffelberg, Switzerland, Tuesday, April 2, 2024. An American teenager and two other people were killed in avalanche near the Swiss resort of Zermatt, police said Tuesday. One person was flown to a hospital with serious injuries. The avalanche occurred at about 2 p.m. Monday in an off-piste area of the Riffelberg, above the resort and below the famed Matterhorn peak.
The Associated Press, citing Swiss police, reported Tuesday that a 15-year-old American teenager was one of three people who were killed in the avalanche Monday afternoon near the Swiss resort of Zermatt. A family friend and the ex-coach confirmed that Alex died in that incident.Brian Brown was Alex’s swim coach at Academy Bullets Swim Club for about five years, he said in a call Wednesday.Brown met Alex as third grader when he transferred into Academy Bullet’s program out of Westmont, he said.
Alex’s passing, Brown said, is “a big loss for our program, a big loss for his teammates that aren’t going to have that happy kid at practice anymore, and it’s a big loss for the future — whatever he was going to do, he was going to be very successful.”“I don’t know how many times I read it before it sunk in what had happened. His dad told me that they had lost him in an avalanche,” Brown said.
Zermatt sits at the foot of the famed Matterhorn peak. Rescuers recovered three bodies and an injured skier, a 20-year-old Swiss man, who was flown to a hospital, according to police from the Switzerland canton of Valais. In a pair of news releases, Valais cantonal police identified the victims as a 15-year-old American boy, a 58-year-old Swiss man and a 25-year-old Canadian woman.“Our sincere condolences go out to Alex’s family and friends,” Naperville Central Principal Jackie Thornton wrote in her email message to parents and guardians Tuesday.
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