All news on the topic: Avalanches

Dramatic footage released by the Mount Washington Observatory shows an unidentified snowboarder zooming down the slopes with an avalanche on his heels.

David Linder, 39, Charles Eppard, 39, and Jeremy Leif, 38, were on a guided heli-skiing trip in the Chugach Mountains near Girdwood -- about 40 miles south of Anchorage -- when they were caught in a “large avalanche” at around 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

Multiple skiers were reported trapped in the Alaska backcountry after being swept up in an avalanche, Alaska State Troopers said Wednesday.

A deadly avalanche swept away a large construction crew working on a highway near India’s mountainous border with Tibet.

A large avalanche on a well-known mountain in Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah, resulted in the death of one skier and critically injured another on Saturday

The group of four skiers was trekking up Togwotee Pass, which is near Grand Teton National Park, using a skin track just before noon when they sparked the deadly snowslide that killed Kenneth Goff.

A quick-thinking snowmobiler rescued his brother from an avalanche in Utah, a life-saving incident that his family describes as a "Christmas miracle."

A pair of California climbers were buried in a massive avalanche on Mount Shasta, forcing a challenging rescue operation that took 11 hours, authorities reported.

According to police on Tuesday, an American teenager and two additional individuals lost their lives in an avalanche near the Swiss resort of Zermatt

No way! Carluccio Sartor, a 54-year-old skier from Italy, miraculously survived being trapped under an avalanche for 23 hours. He has since relearned how to walk and has even resumed skiing

Snowmobilers Mason Zak and Jake Dahl barely survived after an avalanche caught them on a mountain in Wyoming, resulting in one being buried under snow for nearly seven minutes, as shown in a frightening video

Four people have been safely located by Las Vegas police after an avalanche fell at a local ski mountain.

US climber Anna Gutu and her guide were confirmed dead Sunday following an avalanche on Tibet's Mount Shishapangma on Saturday, while two others, including another American, are still missing.

The five adventurers on the ill-fated Titan submersible became part of a group of dozens of thrill-seekers who have either died or disappeared this year while engaging in some of the world's most dangerous activities

Six people, including two mountain guides, were killed when they were swept by an avalanche that was caught on chilling video cascading down the French Alps on Easter Sunday.

Video posted by the Utah Avalanche Center shows a mass of light snow travel down the side of Mount Timpanogos through the air like a cumulus cloud or a plume of smoke.

A teenager from the United States attending a prestigious boarding school in Switzerland is missing and feared dead after being buried by a 2,500-foot-wide avalanche during a school ski trip

Three individuals, one each from New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, lost their lives when an avalanche occurred at Colchuck Peak in Washington state

Jonathan Kinsley, 59, and Timothy Kinsley, 57, who head Kinsley Enterprises in Pennsylvania, were trapped beneath an avalanche in British Columbia

Nick Feinstein, 22, son of University of Northern Colorado President Andy Feinstein, lost his life in an avalanche that trapped them both while skiing in Colorado on New Year's Eve

One person died after he and another person were buried while snowboarding on a Colorado mountain, Berthoud Pass, the day after Christmas.

Rescuers were looking for two individuals who might be trapped in an avalanche at a ski resort in western Austria on Sunday

Russian outlet Pravda reports that the terrifying incident took place near the village of Priiskovoe in southern Russia.

A man was skiing along the northwest side of Thomas Fork of Neff's Canyon in Utah when he triggered an avalanche and was trapped in chest-deep snow.

Around 2 p.m. on Christmas Eve, the individual was skiing alongside a companion near Cameron Pass in Fort Collins, Colorado, when the unfortunate incident occurred