Kye petersen biography

Words :: Feet Banks // photography :: Mason Mashon.

“My whole life I’ve been focused on not dying before age 33,” Kye Petersen explains.

“That’s when my dad died, and I just had that number as a sort of finish line. I never thought about anything beyond that.

Kye petersen biography

And now, here I am.”

Kye, who turned 33 in 2023, also admits that he’s always felt a need to try and achieve as much as possible and to live up to the accolades of his father, legendary ski mountaineer Trevor Petersen, who was swept away in an avalanche in Chamonix just weeks after Kye’s sixth birthday. 

“He accomplished so much,” Kye says.

“I know it was a different time—he was a pioneer—but I beat myself up to follow the path he created. I’m really goal-oriented, and that gave me objectives to focus on from a young age.”

Kye’s journey to reach those goals has been nothing less than extraordinary.

He was a sponsored skier at age 11, by 15 he was skiing in Cham