Funding held steady for the Utah Avalanche Center this winter, even as low snow conditions pulled attention away from avalanche safety.

More than a month after one of the deadliest avalanches in California history, a final report details the dangerous ...

Parts of Colorado's high country are seeing a spike in avalanche danger after a burst of spring snow and strong winds ...

Luckily, no injuries were reported in the slide.

This new report also confirmed a Chronicle story that first disclosed that the ski guides led the group through a more ...

Four people died in avalanches in Utah this winter in a week of extreme avalanche conditions and two were in Wasatch County.

Several naturally-triggered size one avalanches dotted the West Kootenay backcountry mountain landscape this week as the avalanche danger rating settled in at “moderate” in the alpine, according to Av ...

A possible equipment malfunction may have sealed the fate of the group of backcountry skiers killed in February’s ...

Heavy wind-loaded slabs, hidden facet layers, and the 30-degree danger zone. Expert Rick Rogers analyzes the National ...

Someone who isn’t killed by the initial trauma of an avalanche — getting swept into a tree or over a cliff, for example — has a 90% chance of survival if they can be freed in 15 minutes. After that, ...

An avalanche at a popular Swedish ski resort has left multiple people trapped, prompting a vast search and rescue operation.

Almost two months after a deadly Tahoe avalanche killed nine people in California on February 17, avalanche experts have ...