Magnus Wolfe Murray, her fiancé, was with her when it happened and tried to revive her but failed. The news of her death first came from Euronews.albania.
It was in the 1990s that Rigby first became known as one of the first people in the U.S. to do telemark skiing. According to Outside magazine, she turned it into a fast, aggressive style that made her “the best telemark skier in the known universe.”
Soon, she started skiing in high mountains all over the world, not just in the Rockies and Alaska.
She skied down 5,000- and 6,000-meter mountains in India, Kamchatka, the Andes, and the Himalaya, including the first person to ski down Cho Oyu on telemark skis. Rigby has been in nine movies about skiing.
Another lost legend, Hilaree Nelson, skied a lot with Kasha Rigby. Nelson sadly died in 2022 while skiing down from the top of Manaslu. The first ski descent of the Northwest Face of 5,982m Hanuman Tibba in the Indian Himalaya was made by Rigby, Nelson Margaret Wheeler, and Alison Gannett in 2010. They mastered a 2,500m couloir.