![World snowboard champion Estelle Balet holds up her overall belt after she won the women's event at the Bec des Rosses during the Verbier Xtreme Freeride World Tour final on April 2, 2016, near the Swiss Alps resort of Verbier]({"default":{"load":"default","w":"73","h":"45","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBrXdxs.img?h=453&w=728&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=500&y=608"},"size3column":{"load":"default","w":"62","h":"39","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBrXdxs.img?h=389&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=500&y=608"},"size2column":{"load":"default","w":"62","h":"39","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBrXdxs.img?h=389&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=500&y=608"}})
An avalanche in the Swiss Alps on Tuesday swept
two-time world extreme snowboard champion Estelle Balet to her death,
police said.The 21-year-old Swiss woman, who had won her second title on the Freeride World Tour only two weeks ago, was making a film when she was killed, Swiss police said in a statement.
Balet was speeding down a slope on her snowboard when the avalanche started and carried her away, police added.
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