The Mono County Board of Supervisors got an education on the county’s avalanche program during a 30-minute informational ...

Heavy wind-loaded slabs, hidden facet layers, and the 30-degree danger zone. Expert Rick Rogers analyzes the National ...

At least eight backcountry skiers are dead after a group of 15 were swept away by an avalanche Tuesday near Castle Peak in the Lake Tahoe area, The Sacramento Bee reported. Six were rescued and the ...

Warming temperatures and melting snow can seem like a tempting invitation to go for a springtime hike, but the Chugach ...

At least five people were killed in a string of avalanches in western Austria, authorities said Saturday. The government office of the Tyrol region said intense snowfall over the last week led to ...

While the fundamental constitutive laws for steel and concrete were established over a century ago, weak layers in snow remain a mystery. There are currently two theories about how they fail. The ...

The story of how nine skiers were killed, and six survived, in the deadliest avalanche in modern California history. A 3-D model reconstruction of Perry's Peak area based on data from the United ...