While crossing an off-piste area between Piste Chamois and Piste Mauduit, he fell and hit his head on a rock.
Haas driver Kevin Magnussen touched on that legacy this week and its potential burden when he said it was "kind of tough" to live as a Schumacher.
He became a Formula 1 motive force from 1991 to 2012.
Michael Schumacher with his children in a Netflix press publicity image.
Doctors said he would most likely have died had he not been wearing the safety gear, and the world champ was airlifted to Grenoble Hospital.
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