Kyle Smaine

Kyle David Smaine was an American freestyle skier, born on 27 June 1991 and died on 29 January 2023. He won the gold medal in halfpipe at the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships in 2015. He met Jenna Dramise in 2010 while hitchhiking in New Zealand and they married on 18 November 2022. He died at the age of 31 in an avalanche on Mount Norikura, in the northern part of the Hida Mountains near the Tsugaike ski resort in Otari, Nagano, Japan, together with an Austrian skier. The English Wikipedia article links his profiles at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation and the X Games. This entry is written from the English Wikipedia article on Kyle Smaine.