Meteorologist Chris Mulcahy breaks down what you need to know about avalanches, their causes, and the potential impacts.

Researchers identify a new mechanism that allows avalanches containing a mixture of rock and ice to travel very long distances.

This guy was skiing on some fresh snow when he decided to go to the backcountry. When he dropped in he suddenly felt the snow ...

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A 37-year-old man was killed in an avalanche in the Utah backcountry while snowmobiling Monday, authorities said. Scott Wright, from Evanston, Wyoming, was snowmobiling with a friend in the Monte ...

A Colorado woman learned her husband was buried by an avalanche after he never checked in as planned, and she began searching for him under the snow. Donald Moden Jr., a 57-year-old veteran skier ...

The Ridgway man who died Jan. 7 in an avalanche in southwestern Colorado was found by his wife, who went to the trail after he did not check in as planned, Colorado Avalanche Information Center ...

An experienced solo backcountry skier and a one-time member of the Ouray Mountain Rescue Team was the person who died in an avalanche in Colorado a week ago. It is the only fatal avalanche in the ...

An avalanche hit a group of five skiers in ... North-East Turkey when the natural disaster suddenly struck at the popular resort. Footage from local news reports showed the moment rescue teams ...

PARK CITY — Two avalanches, one fatal, were reported Saturday afternoon in Summit County's Dutch Draw area and Big Cottonwood Canyon. One person was killed in a separate avalanche and another ...