A seasoned avalanche forecaster was killed last week by an avalanche he triggered while backcountry skiing. Nick Burks, 37, was hitting the chute on Gunsight Mountain near Oregon’s Anthony Lakes ...

A 37-year-old man was killed in an avalanche in the Utah backcountry while snowmobiling Monday, authorities said. Scott Wright, from Evanston, Wyoming, was snowmobiling with a friend in the Monte ...

An experienced solo backcountry skier and a one-time member of the Ouray Mountain Rescue Team was the person who died in an avalanche in Colorado a week ago. It is the only fatal avalanche in the ...

Avalanche investigators suspect Moden was on ... In one incident this year, a skier near Vail was carried nearly 500 feet down a chute Jan. 6 but was uninjured, managing to hike down and meet ...

The 150-foot-wide avalanche slid about 700 feet at the 10,000-foot elevation in Big Cottonwood Canyon. Photo by Nicolas Cool via Unsplash An avalanche swept away two backcountry skiers in a Utah ...