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 ...

The best avalanche shovels are used in a worst-case scenario, ... as these pieces of gear typically do not assemble quickly enough to be used in a backcountry rescue situation.

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.

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 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, ...

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.