{"id":1830017,"date":"2023-01-31T10:35:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T15:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1830017"},"modified":"2023-01-31T10:45:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T15:45:19","slug":"u-s-world-champion-and-pro-skier-kyle-smaine-dies-in-avalanche-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-world-champion-and-pro-skier-kyle-smaine-dies-in-avalanche-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. World Champion and Pro Skier Kyle Smaine Dies in Avalanche in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-world-champion-and-pro-skier-kyle-smaine-dies-in-avalanche-in-japan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1830017&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><br \/>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>His wife, Kyle Smaine, a former world champion freestyle skier from America, confirmed that he died in an avalanche in Japan on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDear Husband and my whole world, officially married November 18, 2022, which not many people knew about,\u201d Smaine\u2019s wife, snowboarder Jenna Dramise, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=631320778997160&#038;set=pcb.631320898997148\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook: Posted<\/a> Monday. \u201cI\u2019m so incredibly thankful that I got to marry you and have you in my life. You loved skiing more then anyone I\u2019ve ever met.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>31-year-old pro skier from Lake Tahoe, California was among five foreign nationals who were caught in an avalanche while backcountry skiing in Nagano, Japan&#8217;s central prefecture, at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Smaine was killed shortly before his death. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/Cn-PNz1hD8q\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Shared a video on Instagram<\/a> He is shown skiing during a Japan Marketing Trip. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Kyle-Smaine-96.jpg\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"25561451\"><\/p>\n<p><\/button><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"25561451\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" 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internal injuries. Smaine, however, was thrown 164ft by the avalanche. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the caption, he wrote: \u201cthis is what brings me back to Japan each winter. Unbelievable snow quality, non-stop storms, and really fun terrain that seems to get better then more exploring you do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nagano police reported that the deadly avalanche happened on Mount Hakuba&#8217;s eastern side.<\/p>\n<p>Smaine was joined by four other men who were skiing in separate groups on the mountain which is 8,100 feet high.<\/p>\n<p>After the avalanche, the other three skiers were able to climb down the mountain by themselves. However, Smaine and an additional man were found Monday without any vital signs.<\/p>\n<p>After heavy snowfall over the past few days, Japanese weather officials had issued an avalanche alert for the area.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow pro skier Adam \u00dc, who was skiing with Smaine Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/mountaingazette.com\/blogs\/mountain-notes\/beloved-south-lake-tahoe-skier-kyle-smaine-killed-in-avalanche-in-japan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told outdoor magazine Mountain Gazette<\/a> They had just completed a run, when another skier in the group triggered the avalanche.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Kyle-Smaine-98.jpg\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"25561476\"><\/p>\n<p><\/button><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"25561476\" width=\"997\" height=\"1024\" 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https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Kyle-Smaine-98.jpg?resize=195, 200&#038;quality=75&#038;strip=all 195w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Kyle-Smaine-98.jpg?resize=231, 237&#038;quality=75&#038;strip=all 231w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Kyle-Smaine-98.jpg?resize=322, 331&#038;quality=75&#038;strip=all 322w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Kyle-Smaine-98.jpg?resize=56, 58&#038;quality=75&#038;strip=all 56w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Kyle-Smaine-98.jpg?resize=150, 154&#038;quality=75&#038;strip=all 150w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Kyle-Smaine-98.jpg?resize=50, 50&#038;quality=75&#038;strip=all 50w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Smaine, Lake Tahoe, California&#8217;s, had just been married in November. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe saw it coming,\u201d \u00dc told the outlet. \u201cWe heard the crack. We realized it is a big one. We started running and then we got hit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00dc was dug out from underneath nearly five feet of snow by rescuers, but Smaine and another skier, who has not been named but was said to be an Austrian national, were not as fortunate.<\/p>\n<p>The outlet reported that Smaine had been thrown more than 163 feet in the air and was killed. Meanwhile, the other victim died of internal injuries. <\/p>\n<p>Smaine was a competitive skier for 10 years and won a gold medal at the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015. In 2018, he retired from competitive skiing.<\/p>\n<p>The US Freeski Team mourned Smaine\u2019s death on Instagram, writing: \u201ctoday we lost an incredible person, friend, skier and teammate to the mountains.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Kyle-Smaine-91.jpg\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"25561554\"><\/p>\n<p><\/button><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"25561554\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Kyle-Smaine-91.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Kyle Smaine looks on after finishing in first place in the final round of the FIS Freeski World Cup 2018  Men&#039;s Ski Halfpipe during the Toyota U.S. Grand Prix on January 19, 2018 in Mammoth, California.\" class=\"wp-image-25561554\" width=\"618\" height=\"411\" 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Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jenna Smaine, his wife, survived him. She wrote that she met her husband for the first time in 2010 while hitchhiking in New Zealand. She described their 13 years of marriage as \u201cthe best damn years of my life.\u201d   <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know you had the best runs in your life out there in Japan and could never blame you for doing what you loved,\u201d The young widow was added. \u201cI do wish I could tell you that one secret I always had, that I loved you. It never really was a secret because I said it at least 10 times a day to you. I can\u2019t wait to see you again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>With Post wires<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His wife, Kyle Smaine, a former world champion freestyle skier from America, confirmed that he died in an avalanche in Japan on Sunday. \u201cDear Husband and my whole world, officially married November 18, 2022, which not many people knew about,\u201d Smaine\u2019s wife, snowboarder Jenna Dramise, Facebook: Posted Monday. \u201cI\u2019m so incredibly thankful that I got &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1830020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[17095,8491,7475,4461,5172,10028,17094,17093,7238],"class_list":["post-1830017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-avalanche","tag-champion","tag-dies","tag-japan","tag-kyle","tag-pro","tag-skier","tag-smaine","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1830017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1830020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}