Fresh snowfall during recent storms and wind-swept snowcaps on weak internal layers have created especially risky conditions, rescuers said.

Colorado avalanche officials are warning backcountry travelers that avalanche danger will increase ahead of the Presidents ...

Avalanche danger is declining across Colorado amid a dry spell and a season with a record-low snowpack, but recent avalanche ...

Four skiers skiers killed in avalanches in the French Alps in three days - At least 66 people have been killed in avalanches this snow season, a monitor has warned ...

Colorado may be experiencing the lowest snowpack on record, but avalanche danger remains very real this week across the state ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of an avalanche on the Schmugglerscharte in Bad Hofgastein. A total of five people have died in two avalanches in Austria.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two deadly avalanches within two days have increased a growing list of winter fatalities in the backcountry across the United ...

Earlier this week, another avalanche in the Trentino Alto Adige region killed two Finnish skiers.

At least three people have died in separate incidents over the last week after getting caught in an avalanche while snowmobiling in Washington and Wyoming. A 31-year-old man from Utah was snowmobiling ...

SALT LAKE COUNTY, Utah — The Utah Avalanche Center is encouraging people to learn about avalanche safety and prevention as they head to the mountains this season, even while there’s less snow on the ...

Two deadly avalanches within two days have increased a growing list of winter fatalities in the backcountry across the United States. In Washington, two backcountry skiers were killed, and another ...