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While it is difficult to be patient under these circumstances, it seems important that we refrain from speculation about the outcome of this accident until the family or their official representatives release valid information.

Everyone associated with Tremblant, and the whole recreational sports world, for that matter, cares deeply for all who experience potentially harmful accidents. However, beyond wishes for well being, contributions to a dialogue about the outcome, without verified information, could prematurely cause any number of unintended fears.

What we do know is that the conditions were very soft spring conditions with no ice whatsoever, and that Natasha's fall was insignificant enough in her own mind, at the time of the incident, that she declined the medical attention that was offered to her.

Evidently, the accident took place on the lower portion of Nansen, a run we all know to be one of the most gentle, forgiving learning environments in North America. We know that Natasha was in the hands of a Tremblant Ski Instructor, a member of one of the finest Ski Instruction Schools on Planet Earth.

We also know that every correct safety protocol was followed after the fall and that Natasha had someone with her from that point on.

Our Best Wishes Go out to Natasha and her Family.

Here is a link to a CNN Video report:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/ ... nnSTCVideo

It is with a great deal of sadness that we must offer our most heartfelt condolences to the Family of Natasha Richardson who has passed away today.

While very few of us ever had the pleasure of meeting Natasha, we non-the-less feel a common bond as people who share a passion for an involved, active and energetic life, which by all accounts, she was a shining example of.

There will be no adequate words to express the depth of sincere sympathy that the entire Tremblant Community will feel.

Every day we embrace and welcome people from the 4 corners of the Earth to share in the Natural Wonders that the Good Lord has seen fit to bless us with at Tremblant, so when a tragedy of this magnitude occurs, we can not help but feel the highest levels of compassion for her loss.

We pray that her family will find the strength and courage to support each other through this most difficult time and that they may go forward from this day, guided by her radiant spirit which shall never diminish.

In remembrance of Natasha.

How will we carry on?

Regardless of the celebrity status involved, the passing of any human being from our world while participating in our cherished winter snow sports is a deeply sobering experience that we will all feel on a personal level, if for no other reason than we have all taken a fall ourselves, at one time or another.

Metaphorically speaking, we overwhelmingly...

"Pick yourself up,
Dust yourself off,
and start all over again."

...as the words of the song go.

These words were written in 1936, but even now, we apply them every day because by nature, that is the way we tend to behave.

Natasha herself demonstrated this very response at the time of her fall. Who would have ever predicted the result at that very moment. We think no one. Perhaps that is the most sobering aspect of this tragedy. Each one of us that has taken a fall in our personal learning experience has done the very same thing. We have gotten up, dusted ourselves off and started all over again. So, that must be the way that we carry on we surmise, because how else could we ever cope?

Yes, we will all be a bit more reflective the next time it happens to us, yes, we will all be a lot more concerned when we see it happen to those around us, but yes too, we will all somehow just pick ourselves up and carry on, and when we do, we should never take for granted the fragile privileges we have in this life.

Perhaps the greatest respect that we can pay, is to acknowledge that from everything we can learn about the life and spirit of Natasha, it would seem as though she would never be a person who would suggest that one should live life controlled by fear.



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