Colorado’s Ajax Peak is an incredible sight in the wintertime. Especially when crews set up explosives to mitigate avalanche risk.

A new viral clip shows what it looks like to be near an avalanche. The video posted on social media comes from snowboarders in Nevada.

Grand Teton National Park officials say they’ve rescued a skier after an avalanche within the park by using a helicopter.

Authorities are now confirming that one person is dead after an avalanche at Palisades Tahoe, a ski resort in California.

Keep these four tips in mind on your next adventure in the snow. Here’s Bear Grylls’s advice for surviving an avalanche.

A video from last year is making rounds again ahead of this year’s ski season. The powerful video shows a gigantic avalanche.

Whether you’re a fan of hiking, skiing, snowboarding, or snowshoeing, it’s essential to know how to predict an avalanche. 

When you’re in avalanche terrain in the dead of winter, caution is of paramount importance. One wrong move and everything could slide downhill in an instant. And the sad truth is that if you’re unlucky enough to be buried, you’ve got no more than 15 minutes of oxygen before rescue attempts may be too late. [...]

When pro skier Owen Leeper strapped on a helmet cam near Jackson, Wyoming, last month, he expected to catch some sick footage of himself skiing a steep couloir. He didn’t expect to capture one of the most harrowing scenes of his skiing career.  When Leeper approached the couloir on Feb. 11, he was feeling confident. [...]