GOTHIC, Colo. (AP) – Four miles from the nearest plowed road, high in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, a 73-year-old man with a flowing gray beard and two replaced hips trudged across his front yard to measure the fresh snow that fell during a mid-March day . Billy Barr first started recording snow and weather data more … Read more
Louise Cameron-Hall went to Tignes to take part in a mountain safety and leadership course Within seconds, a 60-meter-wide slab of snow, weighing a thousand cars, fell from a mountain. “Avalanche! Elise!” a voice shouted. Ten frantic minutes later, Elyse was found 500 feet downhill, her nose ring torn away, her airbag collapsed, trapped in … Read more
Ski patrols explore Austria’s legendary Paznauntal on snowmobiles – Mike MacEacheran It wasn’t long after lunch and I was scouring the peaks looking for trouble, chasing an avalanche. Suddenly, as a sliver of sun shone through the clouds, we stopped our snowmobile and my guide, a ski patroller Rene Schmid, pointed to a bunker half-hidden … Read more
An incredible stroke of luck helped veteran skier Ken Scott survive when he was buried in three meters of mud: Ken Scott In North America, it is generally accepted that skiing within ski area boundaries is safe, but the recent events at Palisades Tahoe – in which three skiers were injured and one died after … Read more