Tuesday’s slide measured more than a half-mile long with a debris pile estimated to be 40 to 100 feet deep, authorities said.
The Chugach National Forest Avalanche Information Center also issued a special bulletin warning of dangerous avalanche ...
This is Alaska’s first fatal avalanche reported this season. It is also the country’s deadliest since February 2023.
Girdwood is a tourist community that caters to winter events, with downhill skiing and snowboarding at the Alyeska Resort in ...
Alaska State Troopers say three skiers who had flown by helicopter to a remote mountain range were swept away by an avalanche ...
Dangerous avalanche conditions in the area persist, stalling recovery efforts and prompting warnings from forecasters.
An enormous avalanche killed three men on Alaska’s Chugach Range early this month, a popular ski region for heli-skiiers. A Jackson guide was among ...
The skiers were caught in a slide Tuesday afternoon near the west fork of the Twentymile River, which buried them “between 40 ...
Three skiers who had flown by helicopter to a remote mountain range were swept away by an avalanche and likely killed under ...
The slide caught the heli-skiers late Tuesday afternoon in the Chugach Mountains near the skiing community of Girdwood, ...