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

While this new slab avalanche theory actually has scientific rigor to it, it remains exactly that: a theory. After all, no eyewitnesses survived. “I want to be clear that we do not claim that we ...

The avalanche hypothesis is not new; two federal Russian investigations (completed in 2019 and 2020) also concluded that the hikers were most likely driven from their tents by a slab avalanche ...

In 1959, nine hikers fled their tent in Russia's snowy Dyatlov Pass and froze. A new study suggests a slab avalanche crushed their tent in the night.

A slab avalanche could explain both why the hikers left their tent and some of the injuries they sustained. Gaume and Puzrin also concluded that the 1959 avalanche did not occur until several ...

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.

Avalanche specialists determined there was a “variably thick knife-hard wind slab sitting on top of a layer of weak, faceted grains and depth hoar at the base of the snowpack,” the report said.

Since May 25, observers have reported over 40 avalanches to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center. About 60% of those were larger, more dangerous wet slab avalanches, many of which occurred in ...

A small slab avalanche breaks under our feet during a high danger field session. We are purposefully staying on low angle terrain for exactly this reason. Ashley Thess. After taking an avalanche ...

Now our avalanche mirrored some of the conditions I’d highlighted in my Silverton feature: A wind-loaded persistent slab at 13,000 feet remotely triggered an area we didn’t expect it to.