Meteorologist Chris Mulcahy breaks down what you need to know about avalanches, their causes, and the potential impacts.

This guy was skiing on some fresh snow when he decided to go to the backcountry. When he dropped in he suddenly felt the snow ...

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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 ...

A Colorado woman learned her husband was buried by an avalanche after he never checked in as planned, and she began searching for him under the snow. Donald Moden Jr., a 57-year-old veteran skier ...

The Ridgway man who died Jan. 7 in an avalanche in southwestern Colorado was found by his wife, who went to the trail after he did not check in as planned, Colorado Avalanche Information Center ...

An avalanche hit a group of five skiers in ... North-East Turkey when the natural disaster suddenly struck at the popular resort. Footage from local news reports showed the moment rescue teams ...

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 ...

The avalanche broke away around 12.30pm on the eastern face of Punta Valgrande, a summit in the Leopontine Alps, on the border between Italy and Switzerland. The skiers who died were dragged down ...

A devastating avalanche at a popular ski resort killed ... North-East Turkey when the natural disaster suddenly struck at the popular resort. Footage from local news reports showed the moment ...