Enter the Volant Spatula, a pure powder weapon released in 2002 as freeskiing legend Shane McConkey's brainchild. Thanks to the internet, the story and inspiration behind these incredible sticks ...

It had been four days since his close friend Shane McConkey had been ... reverse cambered ski born from the Spatula." More recently, Gaffney wrote, McConkey discovered BASE jumping, "and quickly ...

“Shane became what he was in part because ... after much lobbying from McConkey, with the Spatula, a ski initially scoffed at by some in the industry as looking like a water ski.

Influential and daring skier Shane McConkey died Thursday after falling from a 2,000-foot cliff while performing for cameras in northern Italy. He was 39. McConkey was unable to deploy his ...

His name was Shane McConkey and he lived a wonderful life, until his tragic demise in 2009 in a skiing BASE jump that went wrong. Collecting years of archival footage, Red Bull, who sponsored the ...

I was snowboarding at Whistler Mountain in Vancouver last Thursday when I heard the news that big-mountain skier Shane McConkey had been killed in a ski BASE-jumping accident in Italy. Born in ...

Most of the stolen money belongs to Glenn McConkey, an elderly woman with Alzheimer's disease and dementia. She is the mother of famous extreme skier Shane McConkey. Shane McConkey and his stunts ...

A memorial service for Shane McConkey will take place at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday on the Olympic Plaza Sundeck (base of KT-22) at Squaw Valley USA. A gathering of McConkey’s friends will follow at 6: ...

A documentary on legendary skier Shane McConkey that brought more than 4,000 out to Squaw Valley earlier this month will make its South Shore debut next weekend. Peek Nightclub, inside Harrah’s ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Sherry McConkey is a wife, mother and ...