{"id":267083,"date":"2026-02-04T11:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/267083\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T11:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:38:12","slug":"second-australian-dies-in-ski-accident-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/267083\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Australian dies in ski accident in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A second Australian has died following an incident during the ski season in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Melbourne man Michael Hurst was skiing with a group off-course between Niseko Moiwa Ski Resort and Niseko Annupuri International Ski Resort in Hokkaido when he disappeared on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old was later found unconscious by a group of skiers, who attempted CPR.<\/p>\n<p>According to local reports, he had disappeared in an avalanche.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the man had no visible injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Hurst later died in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade confirmed to Channel 7 it was providing consular assistance to Hurst&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is providing consular assistance to the family of an Australian who died in Japan,&#8221; a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We send our deepest condolences to the family at this difficult time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hurst&#8217;s death came just days after an Australian woman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/02\/02\/australian-snowboarder-dies-in-freak-ski-lift-accident-in-japan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">died in a ski lift accident<\/a> at a resort in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>Snowboarder Ella Day Brooke, 22, sustained critical injuries after an unfastened belt buckle from her backpack became stuck in a lift chair at the Tsugaike Mountain Resort in Otari near Nagano on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Brooke was dragged along the snow while being suspended in mid-air.<\/p>\n<p>The woman died of her injuries in hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second Australian has died following an incident during the ski season in Japan. Melbourne man Michael Hurst&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,2300,85,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-267083","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-accident","9":"tag-asia","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}