Police officers try to transport victims found at an accident site following an avalanche the previous day, in the village of Otari in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, on Jan 30.TOKYO – 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 US professional skier Kyle Smaine, an outdoor magazine said.
Police declined to confirm details about the men, whom media said were from Austria and US, but outdoor magazine Mountain Gazette said in its online edition that the US skier was Kyle Smaine, 31. It said that Smaine, on a work trip to the area, was taking a free ski at the end of the day with several other skiers when the avalanche occurred.
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