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PARK CITY, Utah (ABC4) — The family of a 14-year-old who was injured cliff-jumping in 2021 have filed a lawsuit against Park City Ski and Snowboard.
According to the lawsuit filed on May 2, 2025, a then-14-year-old girl and other members of a youth athletics team were encouraged to jump off a cliffside by Park City Ski and Snowboard(PCSS) officials. The girl, who has only been identified as H.K., is a professional Alpine skier who had reportedly trained with PCSS for several years.
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H.K. and approximately 21 other youth athletes had travelled with PCSS to a ski training activity at Mt. Hood, Oregon. On June 30, 2021, the team went cliff jumping at Punchbowl Falls, from heights approximately twenty to seventy feet above the water…