Sophie Hediger, a Swiss Olympic snowboarder, was killed Monday after she was caught in an avalanche in Arosa, Switzerland.

Snowboarder Sophie Hediger, a 26-year-old from Switzerland who’d competed in the Olympics, was killed in an avalanche that crashed down a slope in the Swiss resort town of Arosa. The Swiss-Ski federation confirmed Hediger’s death on its website.

Olympic snowboarder Sophie Hediger was killed Monday in an avalanche in her native Switzerland, just days after her 26th birthday. The country’s winter sports federation, Swiss-Ski, announced Tuesday that the young athlete died in the resort town of Arosa, on the heels of her Dec. 14 birthday.