Snowboarder Ellie Soutter commits suicide on the occasion of his 18th birthday

The British snowboarders' family reveals the details of his death

Ellie Soutter was one of the young British snowboarders to watch for the upcoming Winter Olympics, but this week she took her life at Les Gets, France in the Alps. . Soutter disappeared from his home in a heavily forested area where search and rescue dogs found his body.

The Mirror reported that Jeremy Soutter, the uncle of Ellie Soutter flew to France to help his brother, Tony, devastated the loss of his daughter. His uncle explained that they had planned a birthday party for that night.

"Everything was already up for tonight, Ellie was anxious to be there, at least a dozen people came from the UK for that."

The Soutter family says they still do not know why it happened.

"Ellie grew up with her father Tony, they were incredibly close, Tony and his wife divorced, Tony was adamant that he would bring Ellie in. He has extraordinary parenting skills."

Jeremy Soutter says Ellie had seemed optimistic about the future, which makes everything more confusing.He explains that he recently saw his niece in England.

"And I saw her recently to a wedding in the UK and she was as chirophant as ever. You could never have predicted that. "

The GB Snowboarder's family member Ellie Soutter confirms the tragic details of his death https://t.co/cTBFgHrc7A

-ian mcdonald (@ ianmcdo03120397) July 28, 2018 [19659012] Father Tony Soutter would have seen Ellie for the last time this morning before going to work, and explained that he stopped in his room at 8 am on the day of his 18th birthday, but She will still sleep. "Soutter explains that he texted her later but never heard him." Tony Soutter says he's worried when he returned home after working at 6 pm to find that his purse was still home, but it was not found, so he alerted the police.

The authorities brought sniffer dogs and they traced the smell of 39, Ellie Hanging in the nearby woods, her uncle explains that they found her after 11 pm

"It was 11:01 pm 5 when they found it. There was no note, nothing. She was somewhere where you can hardly access. She must have just kept walking and walking. The police fought to get there. "

Her Uncle added to Extra that Ellie seemed happy and hopeful.

" She was brilliant as a button the day before. Happy, excited by life. It's the thing that kills his father.

The former boyfriend of Ellie Soutter, skier Oscar Mandin, said that she had had some problems in the past, but he is surprised that she took him life

period but she had gone through that. I was so shocked when I learned what had happened.

Mandin says that snowboarding and competition have made him happy, so he can not believe his death has anything to do with the sport.

That gave him his smiles. It was his happy place. I do not think it has to do with his snowboard. "