With at least eight people dead, Tuesday’s avalanche in California was one of the deadliest in the last five decades.

For its adherents, the sport always boils down to calculations of risk. Plunging down steep, powder-filled mountainsides is ...

The company has been criticized relentlessly on social media for setting out Sunday with 11 paying clients and four guides for a three-day backcountry ski trip with the strongest storm of the ...

An avalanche in California has left eight back-country skiers dead and one missing. Here's how it unfolded.

The avalanche near Lake Tahoe was the deadliest in modern California history and the worst in the US since 1981 ...

Recent deadly incidents in California and Europe are putting avalanches - and how to avoid them - in the spotlight.

The sisters regularly met up with their friends, many of them fellow parents with ties to Stanford University, to go on ski trips.

Eight backcountry skiers died and one remains missing after an avalanche in the Lake Tahoe area, officials said on Wednesday.

In 1982, seven people were killed in an avalanche at the Alpine Meadows resort in North Lake Tahoe. In 2008, three men were ...

Nine skiers remain missing after an avalanche near Castle Peak in Nevada County, where multiple agencies are conducting an ...

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The victims of a deadly avalanche in California’s Sierra Nevada include a group connected to a skiing academy near Lake Tahoe ...