MTV’s Nitro Circus star Erik Roner died in a tragic skydiving accident on Monday, Sept. 28, in Lake Tahoe, Calif., the Placer County sheriff’s office confirmed to The Los Angeles Times. The action sports star and professional skier and BASE jumper was killed after hitting a tree and getting tangled while attempting to land. He was 39 years old.
The reality personality was part of a group conducting a skydiving performance at Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows Resort as part of a golf event hosted in Olympic Valley by The Squaw Valley Institute.
"Every time you travel, your true colors come out...growing up [I] wanted to travel the world on skis and see what there was out there," he said in a 2011 interview with Freeskier Magazine. "It"s a great life. I wouldn"t trade it for anything in the world."