The rapid descent of snow may seem harmless, but it can cause a lot of damage to life and property. This is why understanding of avalanches is necessary for those fond of spending their luxury time in ...

Climate change is likely to reduce snowpack in the Swiss Alps over the next several decades, but warmer temperatures could make the snow that does fall more vulnerable to a certain type of ...

It’s time to shift focus towards a new enemy in the backcountry—wet slides. These types of avalanches generally occur after the sun does its work on freshly fallen snow or when we enter extended ...

These types of avalanches can be difficult to predict because ... now connecting terrain that previously wasn’t connected, and there have been reports of large avalanches connecting whole ...

Avalanches involving wet snow could increase ... to change with climate change,” Reitzell said. “The type of snowpack that there is, whether it’s a wet snow versus a drier snow, those ...

A series of avalanches in Norway's far north has claimed ... In the first avalanche, in Lyngen, one person died and two others were hurt. "There were five people of foreign origin that were ...