{{Short description|Swedish extreme skier}} {{Infobox skier | name = Andreas Fransson | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | nationality = {{flagicon|SWE}} | full_name = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1983|4|15|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|2014|9|29|1983|4|15|df=y}} | death_place = Monte San Lorenzo, Chile | height = | club = | personalbest = | spouse = | seasons = | wins = | teamwins = | totalpodiums = | teampodiums = | individual_starts = | team_starts = | wcoveralls = | wctitles = | medaltemplates = | show-medals = | updated = }} '''Andreas Fransson''' (15 April 1983 – 29 September 2014) was a Swedish extreme skier perhaps best known for having made descents of the hitherto un-skied specific faces of mountains.<ref name="telegraph">{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11139324/Andreas-Fransson-obituary.html|title=Andreas Fransson - obituary - Telegraph|date=3 October 2014 |publisher=telegraph.co.uk|accessdate=20 September 2015}}</ref> Among his inaugural descents was that of the south face of Denali in Alaska during the spring of 2011.<ref name="powder">{{cite web|url=http://m.powder.com/stories/news/jp-auclair-andreas-fransson-confirmed-dead/|title=Auclair, Fransson Confirmed Dead | POWDER Magazine|publisher=m.powder.com|accessdate=20 September 2015}}</ref>
Fransson died alongside JP Auclair in an avalanche on 29 September 2014 on Monte San Lorenzo in Aysen, Chile while filming for the webisode series ''Apogee Skiing''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.powder.com/stories/news/jp-auclair-andreas-fransson-confirmed-dead/ |title=Auclair, Fransson Confirmed Dead |publisher=Powder Magazine|accessdate=30 September 2014|date=30 September 2014}}</ref>
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==External links== *[http://andreasfransson.se Fransson's website] *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixcFL8hOzGc Tempting Fear (film)]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fransson, Andreas}} Category:Extreme skiers Category:Swedish male alpine skiers Category:1983 births Category:2014 deaths Category:Deaths in avalanches Category:Sport deaths in Chile Category:21st-century Swedish sportsmen