Mikah Vail is a sophomore at Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School and plays for the Avalanche, a co-op team made up of players from five different schools. He’s the only varsity player from his ...

Two skiers were skiing off-piste in deep snow in Vinschgau in South Tyrol, Italy, and triggered an avalanche. Police are now searching for the two people responsible. The Best Movies of All Time ...

always wear a helmet to enjoy all forms of skiing safely. Safety tips A helmet is far from the only safety gear you’ll need if you’re trekking through backcountry trails. Avalanche safety is a ...

The saying "What goes up must come down" held true for all 104 participants in Bridger Bowl Ski Area's 23rd annual King and Queen of the Ridge competition and fundraiser Saturday. From 9:30 a.m ...

Tom is a plant. He’s a fellow journalist who was deliberately buried by patrol for Utah to simulate the process of locating and rescuing a skier buried in an avalanche. If this were a real-life ...

“We’ve been keeping our snow dances for this exact moment,” skier Javier Bernal from Issaquah ... so you always want to be aware of avalanche reports and whatnot,” Bernal added.

Five skiers died in two separate avalanches in the French Alps, local media reported on Wednesday. In the Savoie region of the French Alps, four Norwegian skiers lost their lives in the Val-Cenis ...

A pair of thrillseekers have remarkably cheated death after they triggered a huge avalanche whilst skiing off-piste. In shocking footage, the skiers can be seen zigzagging down a snowy slope in ...

Mr Arnoux said the group were all “experienced people” who were carrying avalanche transceivers – an emergency locator beacon – as they were skiing off-piste. Off-piste areas are not ...

They were part of a larger group of seven skiers and the remaining three were unharmed. Jacques Arnoux, mayor of Val-Cenis, told AFP each member of the group had been carrying an avalanche beacon as ...