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 ...

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 ...

In Val-Cenis, near the Italian border, four Norwegian skiers were caught in a massive avalanche while ski touring, French daily Le Parisien reported on Wednesday. Three died at the scene ...

(Photo by Nicolas TUCAT / AFP) On the same day a separate avalanche near Chamonix in the Haute-Savoie region to the north killed a Swiss skier, according to the public prosecutor's office in ...

The Norwegians were part of a group of seven that was swept away by an avalanche in Val-Cenis in the southeastern Savoie region near the Italian border. Three of the skiers died on the spot while ...

Two separate avalanches killed five skiers across the French Alps on Wednesday, according to several news reports. Four of the deceased — all Norwegians — were caught in an avalanche at Val-Cenis.

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 ...