Several of the victims who died in a backcountry avalanche disaster in California’s Lake Tahoe Region were members of an elite skiing academy, according to a statement from the school released ...

Two foreign mountaineers have returned to Everest after a deadly avalanche effectively ended the climbing season, flying by helicopter partway up the peak before starting their ascents, an official ...

Eight skiers have been found dead and one is still missing after an avalanche in the US. The skiers were part of a tour group returning from a three-day trip in northern California's Sierra Nevada ...

One week after looking untouchable, the Colorado Avalanche walked off the ice Tuesday night looking broken. The season that once carried the weight of championship certainty ended not with a fight, ...

Adventure-seekers can pay guides to help them do just about anything they've dreamed of: Go ice-climbing on a crevasse-filled glacier, take a jaunt to an active volcano, and ski the backcountry in an ...

Survivors of Italy’s avalanche disaster on Sunday recounted how they ate snow to stay hydrated and sung to keep their spirits up while huddling in pitch black, cramped cavities in the mangled wreckage ...

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 ...

The warnings were clear and eerie. A winter storm warning forecast up to 8 feet of snow in California's Lake Tahoe Region, and avalanche conditions were considered "very dangerous." Blackbird Mountain ...