Imagine a skier’s surprise as he was riding the lift and saw three bears dashing across the ski run below him, surrounding by skiers.

Visitors to a ski area in Canada spotted a pair of rare lynx roaming around. Watch footage of the two sightings here.

A 12-year-old girl fell from a ski lift at the Mammoth Mountain ski area in California, and survived. Another skier caught it all on video.

A skier in China spotted a snow leopard and tried to get close to take a selfie. Unfortunately, the animal attacked.

In case you don’t plan to ski off a cliff with a parachute strapped to your back, you can watch this skier do an epic BASE jump instead.

A skier and her dog accidentally triggered a small avalanche in Andorra, and her helmet-cam video went viral. Watch here.

Lenka Lanči happened upon a sun candle, an optical illusion that looks like a column of sparkles. See it here.

Mt. Etna is erupting, and the natural spectacle is drawing thousands. Some people are doing some surprising things there.

For some skiers and snowboarders in Japan, the line for the ski lift was too long, so that they started climbing the mountain instead.

A backcountry skier stumbled across a hidden, waterfall that was nearly frozen over, and then he tumbled down it. Watch here.