SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. Beloved South Lake Tahoe professional skier Kyle Smaine reportedly died this past weekend in an avalanche in Japan. The Mountain Gazette reported that Smaine, 31, was skiing on a marketing.
One of two foreign men swept up in an avalanche in Japan while back-country skiing in the central prefecture of Nagano and found without vital signs on Monday was U.S. professional skier Kyle Smaine, according to an outdoor magazine.