Alaska Wildlife Troopers were notified of the avalanche and missing skiers around 5:10 p.m. Tuesday, but they were not able to begin recovery efforts because of waning daylight and hazardous ...

50 people were initially rescued from the avalanche site and five others were still reportedly missing Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

An avalanche in the Alaskan backcountry buried three skiers under at least 40 feet of snow, Alaska Wildlife Troopers said in a dispatch Wednesday. The blanket of debris could be as deep as 100 ...

A radio station owner and his two friends were killed after heli-skiing onto a rugged Alaskan mountain and getting trapped in a massive avalanche on Tuesday. David Linder, 39, Charles Eppard ...

GIRDWOOD, Alaska (AP) — Three skiers who had flown by helicopter to a remote mountain range were swept away by an avalanche and likely killed under the weight of dozens of feet of snow ...

The avalanche occurred on Monday near a snowmobile trail in Happy Valley, west of the city of Bend, officials said. By Yan Zhuang The authorities on Tuesday recovered the bodies of two backcountry ...