you take the risk of being injured or killed in an avalanche. We don't mention that to explicitly deter skiers from recreating in the backcountry, but it's a reality worth noting. Before reading ...

A massive avalanche on a popular Utah mountain killed a skier and left another seriously injured Saturday. The fatal mishap unfolded around 12:45 p.m. on a Big Cottonwood Canyon mountain near ...

Colorado’s Avalanche Information Center says a lone skier triggered the avalanche that buried and killed him in southern Colorado’s San Juan Mountains earlier this month. The agency wrote in a ...

Photo by Nicolas Cool via Unsplash An avalanche swept away two backcountry skiers in a Utah canyon, killing one and seriously injuring the other, officials reported. The 150-foot-wide avalanche ...