Hannah Hughes was backcountry skiing in Norway when she looked up to see a wall of snow barreling towards her. She now faces a long recovery from her injuries.

A weekslong "snow drought" in Northern California's Sierra Nevada helped set the stage for Tuesday's deadly avalanche, after several feet of new snow fell on an earlier layer that had hardened, making ...

Avalanches cause dozens of mountain emergencies in Switzerland every year. Here are the three most important questions about the white danger - including answers.

DENVER (KDVR) — When you live in close proximity to an area that is constantly under threat from natural disasters, like Oklahoma with tornadoes, California with earthquakes and Colorado with ...

It is not unusual for avalanches to be in the news in the northern hemisphere at this time of year, the height of the annual ski season. But Tuesday's deadly incident in California, which took the ...

UPDATE June 25, 2026, 1:10 P.M. MT: Some reports state that the incident happened on Kapura Peak (21,502 feet), not K6. Outside will continue to update this story as we learn more. “Both Christina and ...

A storm system delivered some much-needed moisture to the mountains of western Colorado, with some areas receiving more than a foot of new snow. The snow in the mountains will gradually taper off ...

A MOUNTAINEERING couple were killed in a horror avalanche as their guide made a miraculous escape from the snow blast.

Two skiers have died in an avalanche accident in South Tyrol. At an altitude of 2,450 meters in the Stubai Alps, around two dozen ski tourers were caught in a 150-meter-wide and several ...