Kyle Smaine

Kyle David Smaine (June 27, 1991 – January 29, 2023) was an American freestyle skier.

He won a gold medal in halfpipe at the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015.

[1][2] Smaine met Jenna Dramise in 2010 while hitchhiking in New Zealand.

[3] Smaine died alongside an Austrian skier in an avalanche on Mount Norikura, located in the northern part of the Hida Mountains near Tsugaike Ski Resort in Otari, Nagano, Japan, on January 29, 2023, at the age of 31.

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