The incident offered reminder that the snow doesn't care whether or not it's early November. Luckily, the skier was okay.

New visuals of the aftermath of the avalanche at the Himlung Himal peak in Nepal have emerged, showing the sheer extent of the disaster. The death count from the avalanche has risen to four after two ...

A tourist filmed the scary moment an avalanche barreled down a mountain and slammed into a train traveling through the Swiss Alps on Tuesday, February 17. Kirsten Osborne, an Australian woman living ...

Backcountry skiing can be risky, particularly after heavy, wet snow. (AscentXmedia/E+ via Getty Images) A deadly avalanche buried a group of backcountry skiers and guides near Lake Tahoe in California ...

The group of 15 backcountry skiers would have had only seconds to process the mass of snow heading toward them — traveling at as much as 100 mph — after one skier spotted it and shouted “Avalanche!” ...

Almost two months after a deadly Tahoe avalanche killed nine people in California on February 17, avalanche experts have published an official incident report on the tragedy. According to an analysis ...