[4] While in Norway, he won junior competition titles and achieved success at a national level.
[4] After attending the University of Oslo and serving in the Norwegian Army, he moved to America in 1980.
[1] Three years later, he graduated from the Montana State University,[1][3] where he had to study English as a foreign language.
[4] At the masters level, Engen won more than twenty World Cup medals, including twelve golds.
[1] Engen died in April 2018 from pancreatic cancer,[4] after being diagnosed with the illness in August 2017.