Death
Following the Olympics, the 1964 racing season concluded March 22nd at the U.S. Alpine Championships in Winter Park, Colorado, and Werner retired from competition at age 28 and started a new career. Three weeks later he was in Switzerland to film the ski movie Ski-Fascination for Willy Bogner. Werner and German racer (and Olympic medalist) Barbi Henneberger, age 23, were caught in an avalanche on the Trais Fleur slope, near St. Moritz. Werner skied out of the first avalanche, but was caught up in another avalanche; their bodies were found hours later, deaths attributed to suffocation.
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