Last April, a powerful spring snowstorm swept across parts of the Alps, triggering dangerous avalanche conditions in multiple regions. In some areas, avalanche danger reached Level 4–5 on Europe's ...

A British man who died in an avalanche while skiing off-piste in the French Alps has been named as a retired company director. Neil Willetts, 56, was buried under tonnes of snow after he was engulfed ...

LONDON — Winter snow is typically welcomed in the Alps, an area well-equipped to cope with the several inches of the white stuff. But recent thaws followed by heavy rainfall have upended travel and ...

It is not unusual for avalanches to be in the news in the northern hemisphere at this time of year, the height of the annual ski season. But Tuesday's deadly incident in California, which took the ...

Rescue workers on Sunday found the bodies of six skiers who went missing a day earlier after being carried away by an avalanche during a trek in the Queyras mountain range in the French Alps, police ...

From the vantage point of our helicopter above the Alps, you can make out scars and dimples from recent avalanches. More than 100 people have died across the mountains this season so far, according to ...

Authorities said 25 skiers, who had been descending Val Ridanna in the Italian Alps, got caught in an avalanche that occurred around 12 p.m. local time on Saturday, March 21 Two people died, three ...

A weekslong "snow drought" in Northern California's Sierra Nevada helped set the stage for Tuesday's deadly avalanche, after several feet of new snow fell on an earlier layer that had hardened, making ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's a terrifying and almost unbelievable view of an avalanche plowing into a train in the Swiss Alps. See what one passenger ...

Five people have been injured after a train derailed in southern Switzerland, in an incident that could have been caused by an avalanche, police say. The derailment happened near the village of ...

There are some great one day hikes within easy reach of the Swiss city of Geneva but some are easier than others, writes Monty Pierce Jones. A former fire safety official in the Swiss ski resort of ...