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Deadliest avalanche of season strikes Washington when three are swept down mountain
Tacoma News Tribune via AOL· 1 year agoThree climbers were killed in the deadliest avalanche of the season when they were swept hundreds of...
Tahoe avalanches: What causes innocent-looking snow slopes to collapse? A physicist and skier...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 5 months agoA skier at Palisades Tahoe, home of the 1960 Winter Olympics and site of a small but deadly...
How did a Colorado skier survive being swept 2,000 feet down mountainside in avalanche?
Advnture via Yahoo News· 2 months agoAvalanche on mountain. Winter is showing no signs of abating in Colorado's mountains and while that...
Skier swept length of 4 football fields in avalanche in Grand Teton, park rangers say
Idaho Statesman McClatchy via AOL· 4 months agoA skier was swept 1,500 vertical feet — the equivalent of more than four football fields — in an...
Avalanche buries snowboarder up to chest on Utah mountain. ‘Shaken to my core’
Idaho Statesman via Yahoo News· 5 months agoA longtime snowboarder got caught in an avalanche for the first time — and recounted every harrowing...
This is what you'll see if you trigger, then get swept away in an avalanche
Advnture via Yahoo News· 6 months agoAvalanche on sunny day. A New Hampshire man skiing on Mount Washington last weekend was left with...
Avalanche watch issued for Tahoe area. Here’s when it’s in effect — and what to expect
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 5 months agoAn avalanche watch will go into effect for parts of the Sierra Nevada this weekend, just days after...
Avalanche sweeps away tourists in northeast India; 7 killed
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAn avalanche swept away a group of tourists in the Himalayas in northeastern India on Tuesday,...
Avalanches Killed Another Climber on Manaslu
Outside via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThis article originally appeared on Outside At 9 A.M. on Saturday, October 1, a massive avalanche swept down the lower flanks of 26,781-foot Manaslu and...
Avalanche buries and kills skier in Wyoming canyon, officials say. ‘Not a normal year’
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 5 months agoAn avalanche killed a 41-year-old skier, who was swept away and buried in snow in Wyoming, officials...