A Florida high school senior was looking forward to her graduation and starting college before severely injuring herself in a ski accident in Colorado that left her with broken ribs and head and ...

The findings of a new paper show governance and preparedness rather than hazard magnitude determine whether avalanches become mass-casualty events. With large ice-rock avalanches growing in frequency ...

On Feb. 17, the morning that fifteen skiers and snowboarders set out from Frog Lake huts in a bid to exit the backcountry before travel became impassable, snow was falling with an intensity that ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. On the morning of the deadliest avalanche in California’s modern history, Cody Townsend was skiing above the ...

Two days before the deadly avalanche, survivor Anton Auzans read about a historic icident that occurred in the same region almost two centuries ago Nevada County Sheriff's Office; Fotosearch/Getty Two ...

CHARLESTON, Utah (KUTV) — A string of deadly avalanches across Utah has underscored just how unusual and dangerous this winter’s snowpack has become. Multiple fatalities have been reported in recent ...

RESTORE POWER BY TOMORROW NIGHT. TONIGHT WE ARE LEARNING HEROISM FROM THE INITIAL SURVIVORS OF LAST WEEK’S SIERRA AVALANCHE THAT KILLED NINE MEMBERS OF A GROUP. THOSE INITIAL SURVIVORS SAVED THREE ...

Mourners held a heartbreaking vigil for the victims of the Lake Tahoe avalanche on Sunday night. Volunteers set up the poignant memorial in the historic downtown of Truckee for those who perished in ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A second avalanche struck Big Cottonwood Canyon, unfolding just hours after two skiers were buried in a separate slide. In the latest avalanche, a 40-year-old man was carried ...

The conditions that led to California’s deadliest avalanche in modern history began forming weeks ago, when the high Sierra’s snowpack thawed and froze again and again into glass-like shards of ice.

The storm that blew into the Sierra Nevada earlier this week was ferocious, bringing frigid air, gusts of wind and whiteouts and dropping 6 feet of new snow on Donner Summit in a matter of days.

(FOX40.COM) — Aerial surveys are underway at the site of the fatal Castle Peak avalanche as first responders attempt to recover the remains of disaster’s the nine victims. The Nevada County Sheriff’s ...