After weeks of drought, the first snowfall in the Karakoram has triggered an avalanche that broke one climber's leg. A rescue ...

Authorities are confirming the death of a skier who triggered an avalanche alongside his climbing partner, a snowboarder, while descending a slope in Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska.

Trigging a slab avalanche remotely from the side or below will be possible.” Mackenzie also advised avoiding avalanche terrain: “The only way to manage a persistent slab problem is to avoid it.

This guy, along with his friends was riding their snowmobiles in an area around Anchorage, Alaska. The snowmobile triggered a loose slab avalanche, and a large amount of snow came sliding down the ...

A 29-year-old skier from Washington was killed after being caught in an avalanche on Mt. McKinley in Alaska.

DENALI NATIONAL PARK, Alaska – A 29-year-old skier from Washington was killed after being caught in an avalanche on Mt. McKinley in Alaska. The National Park Service said Nicholas Vizzini died Monday ...

Calling it an exercise in imagination, seismologist Carl Tape stopped at the site of Dome City and the former townsite of ...

Nicholas Vizzini, a 29-year-old skier from Washington state, died on Mount McKinley, America's highest mountain, after triggering an avalanche while trying to descend its treacherous peak.

If the wind slab had simply slid over the tent and halted, without developing into a full-fledged avalanche, the evidence, Greene said, might not be visible twenty-five days later.

On June 10, a soft slab avalanche caught American Nicholas Vizzini, 29, and his partner below the Rescue Gully above Camp 14 on the same route.