He's won the men's X-Games freeski superpipe in Aspen, becoming the first New Zealand athlete to claim gold in the discipline.

He's also the first freeskier to land both his right double 1620 and the combination of a right double 1620 into a left double 1620 in a halfpipe competition.

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28 Sep: Following weeks of avalanches, skiers and snowboarders are being urged to keep to the tracks this weekend in the Southern Lakes

20 May: Skiers and snowboarders are being advised to be up to speed with new changes to Mt Hutt's parking

18 Mar: To the ski slopes of Saalbach , Austria..

12 Mar: The family of 21-year-old Christchurch woman who died in an avalanche in Japan says she was full of vitality and had a passion for life

12 Mar: Two New Zealanders have been killed in an avalanche, while backcountry skiing in Japan's northern island of Hokkaido

11 Feb: Alpine skier Alice Robinson has finished second at the FIS Giant Slalom World Cup held in Andorra

30 Jan: X Games silver medallist Nico Porteous is thriving under a liberated mindset

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