Recovering from a 400-yard-long “soft slab” avalanche, the survivors would have had mere minutes to try to locate the others ...

An avalanche in California's Sierra Nevada mountains killed at least eight skiers, making it the deadliest such disaster in the U.S. in 45 years.

The company has been criticized relentlessly on social media for setting out Sunday with 11 paying clients and four guides ...

An avalanche warning has been issued by the Flathead Avalanche Center, highlighting very dangerous conditions.

In 1982, seven people were killed in an avalanche at the Alpine Meadows resort in North Lake Tahoe. In 2008, three men were ...

A snowmobiler from the Midwest was killed Sunday after a group of four riders was caught in a large avalanche in the Centennial Mountains near Island Park, ...

Eight of nine skiers buried in an avalanche near Lake Tahoe in northern California’s Sierra Nevada mountains have died, ...

The group had spent two nights at the Frog Lake huts and was returning to the trailhead when the avalanche struck.

It generally takes just two ingredients to create dangerous conditions: A slope of 30 degrees or more and layers upon layers ...

While the fate of the missing skiers remains unknown, Tuesday's avalanche has the potential to go down as one of the worst in modern California history.

The Friends of the Idaho Panhandle Avalanche Center has issued a warning about current avalanche conditions. According to a recent report, the avalanche danger ratings are now equal. The center ...