Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A skier in Utah captured the terrifying moment he unknowingly skied away from a fast-moving avalanche while descending a remote ...

Dozens of rescue personnel were dispatched to the scene, including firefighters and law enforcement, according to local authorities Authorities said 25 skiers, who had been descending Val Ridanna in ...

View post: Matthias Giraud Lands First Ski BASE Jump of Aiguille du Plan North Face Per the CBC, an initial report from the RCMP said that the avalanche struck and buried two skiers. One was able to ...

A geophysicist and a ski area avalanche forecaster got together to create Got-U, a new app that could save skiers’ lives. In the dispatch center at California’s Palisades Tahoe on a late-season storm ...

A 38-year-old Revelstoke man was killed by an avalanche he triggered while backcountry skiing in Glacier National Park on Sunday, the B.C. Coroners Service has confirmed. Jason Chad Westbury was with ...

For decades, skiing in the backcountry – far from chairlifts, parking lots and the apres-ski bar scene – was the domain of only the most dedicated, or the most anti-corporate, adherents of the sport.

Two people are dead, and five others were injured, following an avalanche in the Italian Alps. Corpo Nazionale Soccorso Alpino e Speleologico (CNSAS), a mountain rescue service in the Trentino-Alto ...