World champion half-pipe skier Kyle Smaine and another skier died after getting buried in an avalanche in the mountains of central Japan over the weekend.
— World champion halfpipe skier Kyle Smaine and another skier died after getting buried in an avalanche in the mountains of central Japan over the weekend. Police in Nagano Prefecture said earlier that the two men were among five foreign skiers who were caught in an avalanche Sunday afternoon on the eastern slope of Mount Hakuba Norikura, where the group was backcountry skiing. about the 31-year-old American's death.
There had been heavy snowfall in the area at the time of Smaine's trip, and authorities had issued avalanche warnings. on social media and said Smaine"was thrown 50 meters by the air blast and buried and killed." Two other skiers were with Smaine, one of whom died and another who was buried in nearly 5 feet of snow but emerged unscathed. Gunderson did not give the full names of the other skiers.
Police declined to disclose the skiers' nationalities and names, saying they were still being verified, but Japan's TV Asahi said one was American and the other Austrian.on its blog pageMike Rogge, the editor of the magazine, said Gunderson had been working for the publication when the tragedy struck. He said the trip was organized as part of a marketing project by Nagano's tourism board and a private company.
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