Missing Bay Area Student Found Dead At CA Ski Resort

FREMONT, CA — A Fremont man who never returned after a day of skiing at a Northern California resort has been found dead, authorities said.

Colin Kang, 21, was last seen skiing on Wednesday around Martis Camp Express at the Northstar Ski Resort in Truckee, according to the San Jose State University Ski & Snowboard Club and authorities.

He was expected to return later that day, but Deputies learned around 11 p.m. that Kang's car was still parked at the resort, according to the Placer County Sheriff's Office, well after operating hours.

The Tahoe Nordic Search & Rescue Team, made up of 15 skiers, a snowcat and two snowbilers, was deployed early the following morning to search for Kang, authorities said. Members of the resort's ski patrol also helped in the search.

Rescue crews found Kang's body at around 9 a.m. Thursday. Kang was a San Jose State student and a worker at the resort. He was off-duty when he went missing.

It's unclear how Kang ended up where he did, and a cause of death was not immediately available.

Kang's death marks the third this month at the popular California resort. A 26-year-old Los Angeles man also died in a skiing accident earlier this month, followed by a 53-year-old Bay Area man who fatally crashed his snowmobile.

His death also comes following California's deadliest avalanche that struck in the Central Sierra Nevada region near Truckee on Tuesday. The avalanche killed at least eight people, but at least one more is presumed dead.