It&#x27;s not just any skiier it&#x27;s the guy winning the world cup total the last years! Wish my favorite sport was featured on HN in some better light, heh.<p>From my experience in flying drones in wintery mountains, it could be a battery failure. Cold batteries suddenly drops in voltage, too fast for the failsafe mechanisms to trigger. Can explain why it drops like a brick and not slowly descends.