Tuesday’s slide measured more than a half-mile long with a debris pile estimated to be 40 to 100 feet deep, authorities said.

Efforts to recover the three men who died in an avalanche Tuesday while they were on a guided heli-ski trip in the Chugach Mountains near Girdwood were halted due to dangerous conditions and difficult ...

Girdwood is a tourist community that caters to winter events, with downhill skiing and snowboarding at the Alyeska Resort in ...

Three skiers who had flown by helicopter to a remote mountain range were swept away by an avalanche and likely killed under ...

Efforts to recover the three men who died in an avalanche Tuesday while they were on a guided heli-ski trip in the Chugach ...

Dangerous avalanche conditions in the area persist, stalling recovery efforts and prompting warnings from forecasters.

This is Alaska’s first fatal avalanche reported this season. It is also the country’s deadliest since February 2023.

Authorities in Alaska said they would attempt Thursday to reach the site of an avalanche that trapped three skiers, all of ...

Alaska state troopers say they, along with avalanche experts and a technical mountain rescue expert, determined it is not possible for a team to safely recover the bodies under the current conditions.

The skiers were caught in a slide Tuesday afternoon near the west fork of the Twentymile River, which buried them “between 40 ...