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

The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a Backcountry Avalanche Warning in northern Utah early Wednesday morning.

TRUCKEE, Calif. — The Sierra Avalanche Center has hired local avalanche professional Wendolyn Antibus as the organization’s education manager. Antibus brings significant experience in ski patrolling ...

This weekend is historically the most treacherous time for avalanches in Colorado, and it coincides with a snowstorm that will bring the highest avalanche danger of the month so far. The Colorado ...

Colorado avalanche officials are warning backcountry travelers that avalanche danger will increase ahead of the Presidents Day weekend, which historically has been one of the busiest weekends for ...

Four friends on a backcountry skiing trip last month set out to Longs Pass in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, well-prepared for the journey with decades of backcountry skiing experience and ...

The SBX backpack system from Safeback is designed to pull and deliver oxygen from snow if the wearer is buried by an avalanche, thus increasing their survival time. A group of intrepid volunteers has ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It ain’t me, Gabe. It’s them. The Avalanche without Gabriel Landeskog are a crapshoot. Only the “shoot” part comes and goes in the breeze. Thump Detroit 5-0 ...

Two climbers have died following an avalanche in Slovakia. The men, aged 38 and 37, were killed at the High Tatras mountain range. The pair, who were both Hungarian nationals, were found under the ...