Xinhua News Agency, Tokyo, January 31 (Reporter Prince Jiang guodan) The American freestyle ski team announced on the 30th that the former world champion of freestyle skiing U-site project, Carl smyne, was killed in an avalanche in Nagano, Japan two days ago. Smyne’s wife also confirmed the news of her husband’s death through social media that day.
The American freestyle ski team said on social media: “We lost an amazing person, friend, skier and teammate in the mountains.”
31-year-old smyne won the championship of men’s freestyle skiing U-shaped field competition at the 2015 world championships. The Japanese police revealed that at about 2:30 p.m. on the 29th, he was skiing in the wild near the Yanchi plateau ski resort in Xiaogu village, Nagano County with 12 other skiers from Australia and the United States, an avalanche occurred on a nearby hillside with an altitude of 2100 meters, and smyne and another skier were buried. Due to bad weather, the search and rescue operation could not be carried out until the morning of the 30th, but the two had no signs of life when they were found.
Smen posted several videos of skiing in Japan on personal social media earlier, and the picture showed that he did not slide on the snow trail, but either on the inaccessible steep hillside, or walk through the woods. In the video, he also revealed that he had to go skiing in Japan every winter recently.
Recently, there has been a lot of snow in Japan. Many ski resorts in Japan have now set up warning sign, and skiing in ski resorts is prohibited exterior domain.
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