Kanthat Pongpaiboonvej, widely known as Kan Jompalang, has proposed sending a jet ski team to help search for three missing ...

Local authorities and resorts in Japan's winter destinations are struggling to prevent a surge of stranded foreign backcountr ...

The BBC joins a French Alps rescue team as the number of skiers killed this season passes 100.

The cold, fluffy snow was “every skier’s dream.” But it turned into a dramatic rescue when lifelong skier Carson Schmidt and ...

Late in January, The Aspen Times noted that there had been three backcountry rescues in four days, one a fatality. Trips to backcountry cabins in very cold weather with late starts was listed as a ...

At a California ski resort, two skiers saved a man trapped under deep snow by acting quickly after spotting a ski tip.

Buried alive and seconds of air left — last week, in near-whiteout conditions, an advanced ski run at Palisades Tahoe in Northern California turned into a life-saving mission.

The avalanche dog team at Solitude Mountain Resort, Utah, is getting a whole lot cuter. The resort, in a social media post, introduced Dasha, a black nine-week-old Australian Shepherd Lab mix, ...

Blayne Woods, of Purgatory Resort Search and Rescue, said avalanche dogs like Ember are “always eager to please” and “work really well” with other handlers.

Noticing a pair of skis poking out of the snow, two friends frantically dig out another skier who was trapped under the snow.