Avalanche News

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.

Avalanche Studios founder Christofer Sundberg's pictorial tweet teases generally thought to be Just Cause 3 or a Mad Max game were actually a steampunk sandbox game the studio was working on five years ago.

Swim. Thrashing around in a swimming motion probably saved the life of a British man who was descending Mount Blanc.

At Bras for a Cause on Saturday night at the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, Dave Johnson cheers as Heather Asbell models the Whiskey-A-Go-Girl bra, sponsored by his business, Whiskey Barber, and decorated by Julie Martin-Stacey. PRICE CHAMBERS/JACKSON HOLE DAILY Tom Hornbein receives a kata scarf and welcome blessing from Sange Sherpa at a reception ... (more)

A snow blower attached to the front of a Colorado Department of Transportation loader chews an eight-foot-wide swath through the five-foot-high snowpack two miles from the summit of Independence Pass.

Credit : http://www.austinross.ca/. The view into the Blackcomb Glacier from the top of the Showcase T Bar.

Twenty-three members of the Teton County Search and Rescue team responded to a report Sunday morning of students from BYU-Idaho who had gone caving at the adjoining Wind & Ice Caves Saturday and had failed to return.

Summit County trail managers say the local recpath system is good to go for the summer.

Jason Richwine, the co-author of a controversial Heritage study that has invited an avalanche of blistering criticism, has resigned from Heritage, the first step in what will be an effort to contain the damage arising from the report.

The body of Dr. Mitch Hungate, a long-time Renton dentist, was found by searchers on Granite Mountain on Snoqualmie Pass early Wednesday morning.

Thanks to frequent cloud cover, some visitors only ever get to see Rainier on Washington's license plates.

When it comes to innovative, beautiful, long-form digital storytelling, there is one project in particular which is likely to spring to mind for many in the journalism world, and that is Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek .