Disabled ski champ Jill Kinmont Boothe dies at 75.

[Major Hogwash]

Disabled ski champ Jill Kinmont Boothe dies at 75.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jill Kinmont Boothe, the skiing champion who became a painter and a teacher after she was paralyzed during a race and was the subject of a book and two Hollywood films, has died. She was 75.

Kinmont Boothe died Thursday at a hospital in Carson City, Nevada, Ruth Rhines of the local coroner's office told the Los Angeles Times.

At age 18, the Los Angeles native was the national women's slalom champion and on the cover of Sports Illustrated. She was trying to make the U.S. Olympic team in 1955 when she crashed and broke her neck. She was paralyzed below her shoulders and would spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair.

"At the time that she had her accident, she was probably the premier up-and-comer women's U.S. skier," Alan Engen, a former U.S. ski competitor and ski historian, told the Times.

I remember her story from the movie with Beau Bridges called "The Other Side of the Mountain" released in 1975.

[Angry Dragon]

1. I remember reading the book

[tawadi]

2. "The Other Side of the Mountain"

I remember it.

RIP Jill Kinmont Boothe.

[FailureToCommunicate]

3. She was good good person who kept moving on...

"After graduating from UCLA with a degree in German and English, she applied to the university's school of education and was rejected because of her disability, she later said. Determined to further her education, she moved north... earned a teaching certificate at the University of Washington and taught remedial reading off and on for the rest of her life.

"To get mad, to scream and holler, to tell the world — that doesn't get you anywhere," she told the Times in 1968, when the newspaper named her a Woman of the Year. "You sort of look for what's good that's left, I guess."


RIP Ms Boothe

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. OMG I can't believe she was that old.

Loved that story. Remember the book and the movie well.

[kestrel91316]

5. RIP, brave lady!

[MaineDem]

6. I remember her story very well.

I loved the book.

RIP, Jill.

[obamanut2012]

7. This upsets me very much

What a great lady.

[90-percent]

8. Beau

Beau absolutely nailed Connie Kalitta in the 1983 biopic Heart Like a Wheel. Shirley Muldowney almost died a year after the film was released in a horrific crash in Montreal in her Top Fuel dragster.

-90% Jimmy

[raccoon]

9. Read the book, saw both movies. She was one of my heroes. Rec'd. nt