Three skiers were killed in a heli-ski avalanche in British Columbia earlier this week.

GILGIT: For the past eight days, thousands of people residing in Phander Valley (near Shandur Top) in Ghizer district have been cut off from the rest of Gilgit-Baltistan after a snow avalanche severed ...

Wandel has been a member of the Summit County Rescue Group for 15 years and has responded to dozens of avalanche rescues and recoveries. He said this recent rescue of the snowmobiler tops the list ...

The Utah Avalanche Center said the fresh ... “Avalanches may fail one to two feet deep at one of the many storm snow interfaces or on some isolated upper-elevation northerly slopes, on a more ...

A teenager has died after triggering an avalanche, the fourth person killed in snow slides in Alaska this month.

A Colorado snowmobiler trapped under an avalanche for more than an hour was rescued, dramatic bodycam footage from Monday, 17 February shows. Summit County Sheriff’s Office and Summit County ...

An avalanche in the Alaskan backcountry buried three skiers under at least 40 feet of snow, Alaska Wildlife Troopers said in a dispatch Wednesday. The blanket of debris could be as deep as 100 ...

Two men were snowmobiling and set off an avalanche that buried one of the riders, the rescue group said, and the unburied snowmobiler called 911 and immediately tried to find the other snowmobiler.

A snowmobile rider is now safe after he was “fully buried” by an avalanche — and his rescue was captured on camera. The Summit County Rescue Group (SCRG) said it responded to the avalanche ...

Sometimes a slide happens in the form of loose snow, called a sluff. Sluffs account for only a small percentage of deaths and property damage from avalanches, according to the Sierra Avalanche Center.

An impending foot of snow combined with a change in wind direction creates a recipe for spooky avalanche conditions ... Slabs that fail on a recently buried layer are of concern as well as ...

A snowmobiler was rescued after being buried in an avalanche, Colorado officials said. On Feb. 17, the snowmobiler was caught in an avalanche on Shrine Mountain in Vail Pass, according to an ...