Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The behavior of an avalanche depends on the structure of the snowpack, but that’s only one ingredient. An avalanche requires all ...

Three of the survivors of last week’s deadly avalanche near Lake Tahoe were buried under the snow before being dug out by their fellow skiers in the moments after the disaster, according to an initial ...

Nathalie Vriend receives funding from the Moore Foundation, and in the past from the Royal Society and NERC among others. A deadly avalanche buried a group of backcountry skiers and their guides near ...