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Extreme skier’s wife: ‘We both knew that he could die’

When it comes to extreme skiing Shane McConkey was considered one of the most influential skiers. But, on March 26, 2009, the 39-year-old’s luck ran out. McConkey sailed off a 1,300 foot cliff and had trouble releasing his bindings. By the time he opened his parachute it was too late. Three years later, Rock Center correspondent Natalie Morales met up with McConkey's wife, Sherry, and friend J.T. Holmes, to investigate a cluster of deaths in an extraordinary ski community tucked high in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada. Morales’ full report, ‘The Death Zone,’ airs Feb. 22 at 9/8c on NBC’s Rock Center with Brian Williams.