Anton Auzans and Jim Hamilton were able to escape from the slide that killed nine other skiers, including three from Marin, ...

The recent nine-fatality ski tragedy in California is analyzed in relation to four "heuristic traps": familiarity, social ...

On Jan. 9, an avalanche was triggered at Longs Pass during a skier’s descent, carrying and catching the entire group. Paul ...

Backcountry travel allows people to get out into the wilderness and enjoy the beauty—but it comes with its own dangers, ...

The story of how nine skiers were killed, and six survived, in the deadliest avalanche in modern California history.

In the wake of recent accidents, the Utah Avalanche Center emphasized that risk persists even for those familiar with backcountry travel.

The Utah Avalanche Center (UAC) has confirmed that a skier has died from injuries sustained in an avalanche in Butler Basin ...

“Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous,” said the great Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner. Once again ...

The Utah Avalanche Center (UAC) finalized an accident report for the avalanche that killed a man after a father and son had been stuck snowmobiling.

After an atmospheric river in December brought a record-breaking volume of rain to valley floors in the Northern Rockies, ...

On Monday, Feb. 23, a snow biker was found dead after he was buried in an avalanche in north-central Utah the day before. The incident comes just 6 days after a snowmobiler died when he was buried und ...

Blackbird Mountain Guides was the most prolific avalanche education provider in North America. Then one of its own trips became California’s deadliest avalanche. A closer look at the company at the ...