World champion skier Kyle Smaine has passed away after getting buried in an avalanche in the mountains of central Japan.
The U.S. Freeski team posted on social media about the 31-year-old American’s death. Smaine, who lived in Lake Tahoe, California, recently posted that he was taking the trip to ski in the backcountry of the Nagano prefecture to enjoy the “unbelievable snow quality.”
There had been heavy snowfall in the area at the time of Smaine’s trip, and authorities had issued avalanche warnings.
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