The Polish climber is still stranded in a tent at 6,500m with a broken leg. Three Sherpas hired by Kowalewski's outfitter ...

The Polish climber is still stranded in a tent at 6,500m with a broken leg. Climbers in Base Camp are starting to realize ...

Skidmore had just reached the wooden bridge spanning Avalanche Creek when his brother took off running down the streambank.

After weeks of drought, the first snowfall in the Karakoram has triggered an avalanche that broke one climber's leg. A rescue ...

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

If you get benighted or are far from rescue, good luck building a snow cave without a shovel. Carrying rescue gear every day is also a way to hedge against risk compensation.

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 ...

Rescue dogs in Italy are always on the first helicopter leaving base. But it typically takes 15 to 20 minutes to arrive at any avalanche scene. Bad weather prolongs that window.

Zen, an avalanche Border Collie, attends a training with the Italian National Alpine and Speleological Rescue Corps in Col Gallina, near Cortina D'Ampezzo, northern Italy, Tuesday, March 25, 2025.

Avalanche experts are warning backcountry enthusiasts of very dangerous snow conditions in the mountains of southwestern Alberta and southeastern British Columbia.