FacebookErik Roner will be honored with a private memorial on Saturday.
The extreme sportsman, a skydiver, BASE jumper, skier and founding member of the Nitro Circus action sport collective who appeared on the MTV series of the same name in 2009, died on Monday at age 39 after a skydiving accident near Lake Tahoe.
Family and friends have been invited to a memorial celebrating his life, which will take place in the area, E! News has learned. Following the event, a reception will be held. Guests will be served beer, wine and appetizers donated by several local restaurants.
Roner is survived by his wife, Annika, and their two children, Oskar, 5, and Kasper, 17 months. Several of his friends have spoken publicly about him and his devastating death. One of them, Nitro Circus CEO and action sports icon Travis Pastrana, appears in a touching video tribute to Roner, posted on The Inertia Mountain's Facebook page on Wednesday. The clip shows footage of Roner skydiving and BASE jumping in a wingsuit.
"He really was the kind of voice of reason," Pastrana said. "It's a really surreal moment right now to hear the guy that was the most cautious, the most safe, the most calculated person ends up hitting a tree. That would be like, I dunno, Evil Kenevil dying riding his motorcycle down the freeway."
Pastrana also recalled Roner's wife's reaction to the news.
"Annika, a couple of hours after Erik had passed, she still couldn't pull herself together to tell her kid Oskar that...dad wasn't going to be coming home anymore. My heart just gutted for her."
A tearful Travis Pastrana opens up about his best friend, Erik Roner, who died in a tragic skydiving accident this Monday.(cc: Nitro Circus)
Posted by The Inertia Mountain on Wednesday, September 30, 2015
"There are certain people in life that other people gravitate towards," Pastrana said. "It's their charisma, it's their excitement, it's just people that make you feel good about just being around them and Erik is one of those guys. So if anything that his kids, I hope, can take from him is not even how great he was in action sports, but how great of a person he was and how good he made everyone feel."