Last week, a hiker on New Hampshire’s Mount Washington managed to film the terrifying moment in which a snowboarder and skier were nearly engulfed by an avalanche.  The hiker, RJ Phipps, was walking along Mount Washington’s Tuckerman Ravine on February 25, 2023. He had just lifted his camera to capture some photos of the scenery [...]

This weekend, it was colder in New Hampshire than at the South Pole. On Saturday, amid the dangerous “Arctic Freeze” that swept across New England, the weather observatory atop New Hampshire’s 6,288-foot Mount Washington recorded its lowest-ever wind chill: -108°F. That’s an air temperature of -46°F with 127-mile-per-hour gusts. (For comparison, the South Pole is [...]