Kyle Smaine was an American freestyle skier. He was born on 27 June 1991 in United States.
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Kyle Smaine won a gold medal in halfpipe at the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015.
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Kyle Smaine died after being caught in an avalanche while skiing in Japan on Sunday 29 January 2023. He was 31.
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Smaine, a professional freestyle skier from South Lake Tahoe, California, was backcountry skiing in the Nagano prefecture of Japan.
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As part of a marketing trip when the avalanche hit Sunday afternoon, according to outdoors magazine Mountain Gazette, which first reported the news.
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Fellow pro skier Adam Ü, who was skiing with Smaine at the time, told the outlet that they had finished skiing one route for the second time when the avalanche occurred.
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Triggered by a third skier who had taken a different route down the same mountain.
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Rescuers helped Ü emerge from under nearly 5 feet of snow, he said, but found Smaine and another unidentified skier to be unresponsive.
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Smaine's father, William, confirmed his death to NBC News, as did his wife, Jenna, in an Instagram post.
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