Charles Bozon

Charles Bozon Jr. (15 December 1932 – 7 July 1964) was an alpine ski racer and world champion from France.

Bozon suffered fractured vertebra in the giant slalom at the world championships in 1958 and vowed not to compete again.

[5] Bozon died in 1964 at age 31 in a mountain climbing accident near Mont Blanc.

He and 13 climbing companions were killed in an avalanche on the Aiguille Verte, a 4,122-metre (13,524 ft) mountain in the Mont Blanc massif.

[7] Less than three months earlier, an avalanche in Switzerland claimed the lives of two noted alpine racers, Buddy Werner of the U.S. and Barbi Henneberger of West Germany.