Meteorologist Chris Mulcahy breaks down what you need to know about avalanches, their causes, and the potential impacts.

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A Colorado woman learned her husband was buried by an avalanche after he never checked in as planned, and she began searching for him under the snow. Donald Moden Jr., a 57-year-old veteran skier ...

A 37-year-old man was killed in an avalanche in the Utah backcountry while snowmobiling Monday, authorities said. Scott Wright, from Evanston, Wyoming, was snowmobiling with a friend in the Monte ...

This guy was skiing on some fresh snow when he decided to go to the backcountry. When he dropped in he suddenly felt the snow ...

The avalanche broke away around 12.30pm on the eastern face of Punta Valgrande, a summit in the Leopontine Alps, on the border between Italy and Switzerland. The skiers who died were dragged down ...

An avalanche hit a group of five skiers in ... North-East Turkey when the natural disaster suddenly struck at the popular resort. Footage from local news reports showed the moment rescue teams ...

A devastating avalanche at a popular ski resort killed ... North-East Turkey when the natural disaster suddenly struck at the popular resort. Footage from local news reports showed the moment ...

These moving masses of snow and water are much more unpredictable than avalanches, moving faster and with more energy. Slush flows happen regularly in Norway - particularly in the far northern ...

The Ridgway man who died Jan. 7 in an avalanche in southwestern Colorado was found by his wife, who went to the trail after he did not check in as planned, Colorado Avalanche Information Center ...

The deadly human “avalanche” in Seoul was likely inevitable after the crowd reached a certain size on the narrow site of the tragedy, a professor specializing in crowd disasters said ...