Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of forecasters for the Sierra Avalanche Center provide daily avalanche advisories based on their field observations ...

Avalanche conditions near Galena Summit and the Eastern Mountains got downgraded from high to considerable on Thursday, but ...

“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 ...

Seattle police search for hit-and-run suspect after cannabis store worker injured in SODO The Seattle Police Department (SPD) is searching for a hit-and-run suspect who drove over a man in SODO on ...

Avalanche defined as a rapid snow mass flow down slopes. Forms when weak layers collapse under slab weight. Four types: slab, loose snow, wet snow, and glide avalanches. Triggers include heavy snow, ...

Most of the western U.S., including the Lake Tahoe region of California and Nevada, has had an exceptionally warm winter—breaking records in many areas. And that unseasonable warmth may have caused a ...

Eight skiers were killed and one is missing after a powerful avalanche near Lake Tahoe. Survivors used iPhone to contact ...

This winter has been dubbed Europe's deadliest ski season on record, with avalanches claiming 86 lives in the first two months of the year alone. In the Italian Alps, 13 climbers, hikers, skiers, and ...

The conditions that drove the deadliest avalanche in California’s modern history began to emerge days in advance, as a blizzard brewed after an unusually dry January in the Sierra Nevada. Citing rapid ...