Olympic snowboarder Sophie Hediger has died at the age of 26 following an avalanche at a ski resort in Switzerland.

The Northwest Avalanche Center has issued an avalanche warning for Mount Hood, the west slopes of the Washington Cascades and ...

A man in Utah rescued his brother who had been buried under several feet of snow by an avalanche on Christmas Eve.

Janet He has spoken of her harrowing experience of surviving an avalanche at Palisades Tahoe ... by an avalanche has been speaking of the terrifying ordeal after she fell 200 feet down a mountain ...

Patrick Sweeney, daughter Shannon, 11, and son P.J., 9, were climbing Mont Blanc last month when they were hit by an avalanche Video footage captured the moment the children started to slide down ...

A volcanic eruption is terrifying on its own, but we just learned that, even more terrifyingly, the avalanche of hot rocks, ash, and gas that volcanoes spew can spawn giant tornado-like twisters.