Afterward, we practiced avalanche rescue drills: using probes, shovels, and transceivers to locate and ... Courmayeur to Chamonix and straight into party mode – classic Alps. We wandered back to the ...

According to Mammoth Mountain, no guests or employees were in the area at the time of the avalanche.

The WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF ... above 2,000 metres above sea level on the southern slopes of the Alps, excluding the Münstertal and Bernina region, and 15 to 30 ...

The deaths of three people in an avalanche near Kaslo ... including a transceiver, shovel, and probe for everyone in your group. “Cellphones may not be your best bet out there in terms of ...

Chamoli district magistrate Sandeep Tiwari said he has directed Jyotirmath sub-divisional magistrate Chandra Shekhar Vashishth to submit a probe report ... February 28 Mana avalanche incident ...

VIENNA, March 24 (Xinhua) -- Two skiers died and another was injured in an avalanche in the Austrian alpine state of Tyrol on Monday morning, local authorities said. The victims were part of a six ...

An Israeli was killed in an avalanche outside the Villaroger ski resort in the Savoie region of the French Alps on Friday, French media reported. According to the reports, the avalanche occurred ...

A magisterial probe has been ordered into last week's avalanche at a Border Roads Organisation camp in Uttarakhand's Mana that killed eight workers. The avalanche hit the BRO camp in Chamoli ...

be properly trained in avalanche safety, and be equipped with all proper rescue gear including a transceiver, probe and shovel.

and have an avalanche beacon, probe and shovel ready. “Emergency services are usually too far away from the scene of an avalanche, and time is important,” Simon Trautman, a national avalanche ...

French media report that Israeli was killed in an avalanche outside the Villaroger ski resort in the Savoie region of the French Alps. (Israel National News' North American desk is keeping you ...