Experts warn that a 150-foot-wide avalanche in Little Cottonwood Canyon over the weekend underscores a danger that exists ...

An international research team has shown that avalanches are crucial to the survival of many glaciers worldwide. The study ...

Despite low snowfall, early season avalanches can happen. The Utah Avalanche Center is trying to get ahead of the slides.

Avalanches are an ever-present danger when hiking across steep, snowy mountain slopes, so knowing how to read avalanche ...

As Colorado watches for the first meaningful pattern changes that could finally bring snow to the high country, avalanche ...

Snow avalanche research encompasses the study of rapid snow mass movements, integrating aspects of climatology, geophysics and numerical modelling to understand and predict avalanche behaviour. Recent ...

The behavior of an avalanche depends on the structure of the snowpack, but that’s only one ingredient. An avalanche requires all the wrong conditions at the wrong time. The angle of the mountain slope ...

A fast-acting snowmobiler saved his brother from being killed in an avalanche in Utah — a death-defying feat his family is calling a “Christmas miracle.” Hunter and Braedon Hansen were enjoying the ...

Snowfall in Colorado has been lackluster to start the ski season, but for backcountry enthusiasts the lack of early-season snow has the potential to lead to safer avalanche conditions down the road.

Snow avalanches represent one of the most dramatic manifestations of the Earth's cryospheric dynamics. Recent studies combine experimental field investigations and advanced numerical simulations to ...

The previous parts of this blog series, Snow avalanche detectors: IoT technology applied to people safety, Part 1 and Snow avalanche detectors: IoT technology applied to people safety, Part 2, ...

An avalanche swept up skiers at Lake Tahoe’s largest ski resort on Jan. 10, 2024, as a 150-foot-wide sheet of snow slid down a mountain slope into a pile 10 feet deep. One person died in the avalanche ...