Avalanche News

By Lisa Chapman A pensioner drowned in just 20 centimetres of water after he got stuck head first in a drainage ditch.

Many of our lives were put on hold late friday afternoon as mother nature shared with us our first big storm of the winter season.

'FEATURING The Muppets" a ' three words to gladden any heart this Christmas. In this case, they are printed on the sleeve of Andrea Bocelli's new Christmas album.

To donate money to Operation Santa , mail checks to: Lebanon Rescue Mission, c/o Operation Santa, P.O. Box 5, Lebanon, PA 17042.

With more people than ever heading into Montana's backcountry in the winter, the Flathead National Forest is sponsoring several avalanche awareness clinics over the coming months.

An avalanche has closed one of the state's major highways until at least tomorrow morning, transportation officials say.

Avalanche consultant Dick Penniman is scheduled to discuss avalanche equipment and the elements of mountain weather, snowpack and terrain that causes avalanches at 6 p.m. Tuesday at REI, 2225 Harvard Way.

The onset of fall brought several snowstorms to the area. By November, some areas on Pikes Peak had accumulatedA more than 4 A feet of snow.

Nov 23 - Rescue workers free 18 people trapped in a van caught up in an avalanche in Turkey.

A group who became snowbound near Ovit Mountain, located between Erzurum and Rize, by an avalanche on Friday was rescued late Saturday night after extraordinary efforts by local search-and-rescue teams, the Anatolia news agency reported.

Rescue workers saved 18 people trapped in a vehicle under an avalanche today in northern Turkey.They had been trapped in their van by an avalanche in a mountain pass for around 40 hours.Rescue workers escorted by mountaineers worked desperately to reach the van amid fears of further avalanches in the area.Passengers said their vehicle became ...

JUSTICE Minister Dermot Ahern has agreed to give victims of clerical sexual abuse advance details of the Dublin Archdiocese report as helplines prepare for an avalanche of calls from survivors.

The body of the Slovenian mountaineer recognised as one of the greatest climbers of the modern era has been brought to Kathmandu after he died while making a daredevil solo attempt on a treacherous Himalayan peak.

New England was expected to see another dreary day, while the Pacific Northwest remains under wintry conditions on Friday.A low pressure system was forecast to continue moving over British Colombia from the Pacific Ocean.

Another three dead bodies were found increasing to 192 the number of death in El Salvador, affected by tropical storm Ida and an area of low-pressure from the Pacific Ocean last November 7 and 8. According to a report from the Ministry of Civil Protection, those dead bodies were found at Paz Department, while rescue work will continue in the rest ...

A new avalanche safety Web site for the Cascade and Olympic mountains has been launched by Friends of the Northwest Weather and Avalanche Center, in collaboration with the Northwest Weather and Avalanche Center.

Southwest's latest sale links ski destinations Denver, Reno/Tahoe, and Salt Lake City with several other cities such as Los Angeles, Orlando, and Portland.

The year of 2009 will go down as one of the darkest in mountaineering history. The latest climber to die is 40-year-old Tomaz Humar , a Slovenian alpinist who fell during a solo attempt on the immense unclimbed South Face of 23,711-foot Lantang Lirung in northern Nepal.

A veteran Slovenian climber was found dead in the Himalayas Saturday days after he was injured and stranded on a 23,710-foot mountain, a mountain rescue company and a close friend said.

The state Department of Transportation closed Chinook Pass due to heavy snow and avalanche danger Saturday morning.