On Wednesday afternoon, 43-year-old Dustin Hanson, of Idaho, and his girlfriend were visiting Samoa, a long, windswept ...

The man was vacationing alongside his wife, who he pushed away from the descending sand avalanche, according to Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal. "The sand does collapse and will collapse ...

The avalanche was first confirmed at around 8:20 a.m. on April 9 near the Osawa-kuzure valley, according to the land ministry’s Fuji sand erosion control office in Fujinomiya city in the prefecture.

Seven people were caught and carried in an avalanche Monday in backcountry terrain south of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, ...