According to the post, the mountaineers initiated the rescue because they spotted a waving glove in the snow around 4 p.m.

Your avalanche shovel should be made out of metal, not plastic or even polycarbonate (which was more common with older, now discontinued, avalanche shovels). While some backcountry snow shovels on the ...

students head into the snow to practice using the three core tools of avalanche rescue probes, shovels, and beacons. LEARNING HOW TO USE MY BEACON. I BOUGHT ONE LAST YEAR AND I WASN’T QUITE SURE ...

A man was rescued after an avalanche buried him in central Colorado while snowmobiling on Monday. facebook/screscuegroup. His survival after being buried for that long is nothing short of ...

A few weeks ago I set off to ski the north couloir on Feather Peak, deep in the heart of the Eastern Sierra. Feather is eight miles back and nearly 7,000 vertical feet from a trailhead.

A video captured the dramatic rescue of a couple near Ushuaia, Argentina, ... The couple wasn’t equipped with avalanche safety gear like a beacon, shovel, or probe.

But when they gave a slideshow on their mission at an Eastern Sierra Avalanche Center event the following year, they were shocked at the negative feedback they received for not bringing avalanche ...

A video captured the dramatic rescue of a couple near Ushuaia, Argentina, who had been buried in an avalanche. The video, shared by Tripin Argentina and a local rescue group on social media, ...