Susan Patterson

Not to be confused with actress Suzy Patterson.

Susan Patterson (born October 11, 1955, in Sun Valley, Idaho) is an American former World Cup alpine ski racer who competed in the 1976 Winter Olympics. She was fourteenth in the downhill, younger brother Pete (b.1957) was also on the U.S. Olympic team and was thirteenth in the men's downhill.

Two years earlier at the U.S. Alpine Championships, she won the slalom event at Pats Peak in Henniker, New Hampshire.[1]

In 1990, Patterson married explorer Ned Gillette in a ceremony at the Roundhouse on Sun Valley's Bald Mountain.[2] Eight years later, while they were trekking in the mountains of northern Pakistan, Gillette was shot and killed at their encampment; Patterson was hospitalized and recovered.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ "Idaho girl ski queen". Reading Eagle. Pennsylvania. Associated Press. February 24, 1974. p. 58.
  2. ^ Sullivan, Robert (December 10, 1990). "A big dreamer – and doer, too". Sports Illustrated. Archived from the original on September 29, 2020.
  3. ^ Scutro, Andrew M. (August 12, 1998). "Adventurer slain in Pakistan". Idaho Mountain Express. Ketchum. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
  4. ^ Frank, Michael (December 5, 2012). "Climber, Skier, Adventurer Ned Gillette". Adventure Journal. Retrieved January 19, 2021.


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