A 19-year-old college student died on Tuesday in Massachusetts after a skiing accident.
Alex Kemp, a Williams College freshman from New Jersey, was skiing at the Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort in Hancock, Massachusetts on Monday when the incident happened, the Berkshire County District Attorney’s Office said in a press release.
Officials received a 911 call at 2:39 p.m. Monday about the accident, which took place on the left side of Cutter Trail.
“The caller indicated that Mr. Kemp had gone over an embankment and appeared to have suffered significant head trauma,” according to the release.
Skiers make their way down the slope at Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort on Monday, March 26, 2018 in Hancock, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren/Albany Times Union via Getty Images)
The late student also aspired to complete a doctorate in computer science and was studying political science and economics.
“Alex was one of the strongest students I’ve taught in 21 years at the college,” Dukes Love, a professor of economics who taught Kemp, said in the statement.
During high school, Kemp regularly volunteered, including at a camp where he helped teach children with disabilities to ride adaptable bikes as a step in their independence.
Kemp’s own words in his college application essay included, “Everyone needs someone to root for them and to remind them to always root for themselves.”
“That was the spirit described by so many people who knew him,” Mandel concluded in the university’s statement.
