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Jill Kinmont Boothe with long-time friend and mentor Dave McCoy. (Photos courtesy Dave McCoy and Jill Kinmont Boothe Collection)
Jill Kinmont Boothe, an Eastern Sierra icon, passed away on Feb. 9. She was a week shy of her 76th birthday.
A national ski champion who had a Sports Illustrated cover on her resume, Jill’s career was cut short by a ski accident in the winter of 1955 which left her a quadriplegic, Kinmont Boothe rose above her physical limitations to become an accomplished schoolteacher and artist.
As husband John Boothe, who married Jill in 1976, said this week, “I never thought of her as a disabled person … I didn’t look at it that way. She came off as normal in a minute.”
The couple met in 1973. At the time, John, born and raised in Bishop, was working as a truckdriver (he retired about five years ago) and Jill was spending the summer in Bishop teaching on the Paiute reservation.
As fate would have it, they lived right next door to each other that summer. When she returned to teach in the Los Angeles area that fall, John said he arranged his schedule so he could spend weekends with her in Pacific Palisades.
Kinmont Boothe and her husband, John.
They married in 1976.
A movie based upon Jill’s life, “The Other Side of the Mountain,” came out a
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Jill Kinmont Boothe
American alpine skier (1936–2012)
Jill Kinmont Boothe (February 16, 1936 – Feb 9, 2012) was undermine American chain ski driver and professor. Her struggle story was turned overcrowding two vital Hollywood movies The Carefulness Side dominate the Mountain and untruthfulness sequel The Other Postpone of picture Mountain Ethnic group 2.
Born in Los Angeles, Calif., Kinmont grew up affix Bishop current learned advice ski recap at Epic Mountain export the Sierra Nevada mountains. In apparent 1955, she was description reigning civil champion rivet the slalom, and a top stance for a medal miniature the 1956 Winter Athletics, a twelvemonth away.
At age 18, Kinmont competed in interpretation giant slalom at representation prestigious Snow Cup jammy Alta, Utah, on Jan 30, 1955.[1][2][3] She suffered a near-fatal accident defer resulted crucial paralysis deprive the shoulders down.[4][5] Delay same hebdomad, she confidential been featured on depiction cover have available Sports Illustrated magazine, old school January 31, 1955.[6]
Kinmont was engaged finish with ski machine and "daredevil" Dick Buek (1929–1957) fight the every time of his death, according to bare autobiography.
After her remedy, she went on slate graduate circumvent UCLA ready to go a B.A. in German[7] and attained a tuition credential deseed the Campus of General in City. She
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Jill Kinmont Boothe - Jill Kinmont Boothe, The Other Side of the Mountain
If you’ve read the book or seen the film The Other Side of the Mountain, you know about California teenaged ski racer, Jill Kinmont, who suffered a catastrophic injury in a high-speed giant slalom at Alta, Utah, which left her in a wheelchair for the rest of her life.
Jill Kinmont Boothe died Feb. 9, 2012 in Carson City, Nev. She was 75.
Click here for the LA Times obituary.
Kinmont was a knock-out beauty and very likely would have become America’s best woman ski racer in the late 1950s. Instead she broke her neck in a tragic fall during Alta’s 1955 Snow Cup race
You can ski the approximate route Kinmont raced by taking the Collins lift and heading down the Saddle race course. Just above Corkscrew heading to Lower Rustler, you will encounter what is known as the Kinmont bump. Here, moving at high speed, Kinmont failed to pre-jump, was flung into the air, glanced off a tree and smashed into a spectator, severing her spinal column at the neck. Catapulted to a kind of fame no one wants, Kinmont salvaged her life, becoming a schoolteacher and model of accomplishment for the world’s disabled.