US skier Kyle Smaine has died in an avalanche in Japan, according to a post from his wife on Instagram.
"Dear Husband and my whole world, officially married November 18, 2022, which not many people knew about," Jenna Dramise wrote."I'm so incredibly thankful that I got to marry you and have you in my life.
"You loved skiing more than anyone I've ever met. I picked you up hitchhiking in New Zealand 2010 and who would have thought we would be married 13 years later," his wife wrote. Grant Granderson, a photographer for outdoor magazine Mountain Gazette -- who had been on the same trip as Smaine -- wrote on Instagram that the 31-year-old American had been caught up in the avalanche while skiing in the prefecture of Nagano on Monday.The photographer explained that on the last day of their trip, a group including Smaine and fellow professional skier Adam Ü chose to ski one last run while, Granderson wrote, he stayed at the base camp."RIP," he wrote.
"Adam, Kyle and the other skier tried to run. Adam was buried 1.5 meters deep for 25 minutes and is unscathed. That is a miracle. The skier buried next to him died from internal injuries. Kyle was thrown 50 meters by the air blast and buried and killed.
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