Avalanche News

Officials in Nepal said five missing mountain climbers were likely killed by an avalanche on Mount Kanchenjunga earlier this week.

Parents face an avalanche of advice in the form of news, official recommendations, tips and scientific discoveries.

A so-called act of God is allowing the province of B.C. to cut off compensation for residents whose homes were damaged or destroyed in the Johnsons Landing landslide.

Hikers and bikers can enjoy unrestricted access on the Going-to-the-Sun Road this holiday weekend at Glacier National Park.

The swath of a landslide that buried three homes and left four people dead in Johnsons Landing, B.C., on July 14, 2012.

A retired ranger who helped start the U.S. Forest Service National Avalanche Center died while mountain biking near his home in Idaho.

Most news outlets are keen to maximise the opportunities available on digital platforms to tell stories in the most engaging way as possible, to both attract readers to the content in the first place, and hold their attention.

Daily deal sites exploded following the success of sites like Groupon and Living Social, and the multitude of options for discounts has left many consumers overwhelmed.

I'm happy you asked. Robert Shaw, better known as the actor that played Quint in the original Jaws , died in 1978, a distant 35 years before he ever had the chance to reprise the roll in Avalanche Sharks .

Five climbers, including the first Hungarian to scale Mount Everest, are missing and feared dead on Nepal's treacherous Kangchenjunga mountain, tourism officials said Thursday.

Donn Fendler, 86, of Maine and Tennessee, answers questions Tuesday from Geiger Elementary students as they take a stretch break from his tales about being lost on Mt.

The Colorado Avalanche Information Center reported a 24-hour snowfall total of 1.5 inches near Gothic in Gunnison County, as of 7 a.m. Monday.

'I was thinking: This is really it. I am going off a cliff. I am going to die': Miracle survivor of 2,000ft avalanche fall reveals terrifying moment he was forced to SWIM to safety through snow Ally Swinton, pictured with his ripped clothes, survived a 2,000ft avalanche fall while walking along a ridge towards Mont Blanc A British climber ... (more)

Islamabad, May 19 : The death toll in an avalanche in the Siachen glacier region last year has risen to 128, following the recovery of three more bodies, the Pakistani military said.

Mount St. Helens in eruption on May 18, 1980 showing portion of crater and Mount Adams in background.

Chinook Pass opened to traffic at 10 a.m. on Friday, May 17. It's safe to say drivers can make travel plans over State Route 410 this weekend.

At the start of the 11th week that Obama has held the White House closed to tours by the general public, the president finds himself at the center of an avalanche of scandals involving former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Attorney General Eric Holder, and the IRS.

A snowblower attached to the front of a Colorado Department of Transportation loader chews an 8-foot-wide swath through the 5-foot-high snowpack 2 miles from the summit of Independence Pass.

The real IRS scandal is not the targeting of tea party groups ; it's the shocking lack of much scrutiny at all of the vast majority of politically active nonprofits that poured hundreds of millions of dollars into our elections over the last four years, our Executive Director Sheila Krumholz and Board Chairman Robert Weinberger write in today's New ... (more)

Four people died, equaling the average number of fatalities annually in snowslides around the state.