Avalanche News

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.

Jonny Copp, an avid mountaineer and founder of the Adventure Film Festival in Boulder, hoped to document an unprecedented ascent with two buddies up the east face of southwest China's formidable Mount Edgar this spring.

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"Journey of a Red Fridge" is one of 30 films screening at this year's Adventure Film Festival in Boulder.

A total of 54 people died Sunday in El Salvador as the Central American country was besieged by heavy rains, flooding and landslides, authorities said.

The timeless holiday classic written in 1843 by Charles Dickens becomes the third motion-capture animated film for Academy Award-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis .

China's state news agency says rescuers have suspended their search for a pair of Russian adventurers buried a week ago in an avalanche in southwestern China.

A Chinese government official Tuesday said the authorities would spare no efforts to rescue the two Russian tourists missing in an avalanche in southwest China's Sichuan Province.

TWO Russian tourists missing in an avalanche in southwest China had "virtually zero" chance of survival after being buried for five days, but rescue efforts would continue, local authorities said yesterday.

Oak Harbor resident Bill Robards is making a documentary movie about the tragedy at the small Washington town of Wellington nearly a century ago.

Two Russian tourists were reported missing in a scenic mountain in southwest China's Sichuan Province after an avalanche, said local authorities on Saturday, Xinhua reported.

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