Ski pole attack leaves teen with hole in skull, brain injury

A 13-year-old boy has been left with a bullet-sized wound in his skull after he was attacked with a ski pole.

David Keir said his teenage son Max was involved in an altercation on Grouse Mountain in Canada’s British Columbia, with a man he narrowly missed on the slopes, local television station Fox13 reported.

Mr Keir said the man, sporting a bright yellow ski jacket at the time, rammed his ski pole towards his son before making off.

While the wound to his temple was stitched up after the attack on March 30, it wasn’t until later that the severity of his injuries was revealed.

After vomiting and feeling dazed, he was rushed to the hospital by his family where doctors said the pole had extended more than inch into his brain.

“There were bone fragments and a pool of blood in his brain,” Mr Keir said at a police press conference.

When doctors showed me that image, you freak out as a parent.”

Max spent the next four days in intensive care where doctors considered emergency brain surgery, City News reported.

The teen’s rehabilitation is slow, and has only recently been able to return to school for just an hour a day.

Police are now appealing for the man responsible or anyone who witnessed the incident to come forward.

They released an image of Max on Wednesday hoping someone recognises him from the altercation.

“If you were the person involved in this incident, get in touch with us,” Sergeant Peter Devries told the press conference.

“We just want to talk to you and find out your perspective of what happened.”

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