US, German skiers killed in avalanche
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INNSBRUCK -- An avalanche killed two skiers and seriously injured another yesterday, and specialists warned that recent storms have created unstable conditions ripe for more snowslides in Austria's Alps. A 41-year-old American and a 39-year-old German died in an avalanche in Lech am Arlberg in the southwestern province of Vorarlberg that also critically injured the American's wife, also 41, the ...
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An 11-year-old British boy was killed today in an accident while skiing in the US.
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At least four skiers died in avalanches in the French Alps as hopes faded for a Canadian couple missing since Sunday while snowboarding in Switzerland, emergency services said.
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An American skier was reported missing following avalanches in western Austria that also killed three people and injured four others, police said.
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VAIL, Colo. -- A 13-year-old ski racer was killed Sunday morning in a collision with a resort snowmobile on Vail Mountain. Ashley Stamp, a promising young racer from Steamboat Springs, was skiing down the
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Authorities ended a large-scale search for victims of last week's massive avalanche Monday and said there is a good chance a body found over the weekend was the lone victim.
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An avalanche in central Russia on Monday  killed at least four children and seriously injured nine  others, RIA news agency quoted a spokesman for Russia's  emergency ministry as saying.
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A helicopter and a small plane collided in the air and crashed near a ski slope in Austria on Monday, killing all eight people aboard the two aircraft, police said.
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A chairlift accident near the Alpine ski resort of Grindelwald killed one person and injured several others Thursday.
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A huge avalanche near Whitefish Mountain Resort killed two backcountry skiers and searchers combed the slide area for two other possible victims.
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Search teams dug through 30-foot  deep snow on Saturday to try to find as many as five off-trail  skiers believed trapped by a "monster" avalanche on Friday near  Park City, Utah, but hopes of them surviving were faint,  officials said.
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MOSCOW  - Eleven reindeer herders, including four children, were killed when an avalanche roared through a remote village on Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, the Emergency Situations Ministry said Monday.
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At least three people have been killed in weekend avalanches in Utah's backcountry, and a fourth man remained missing.
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At least 2 dead as Calif. effort helps find dozens of stranded hikers caught in freak blizzard this week. BY BEN MARGOT. YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif.
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A skier died Saturday and two others were injured after being buried in an avalanche in southeastern Austria, police said.
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Afghanistan's Interior Ministry said two German journalists have been killed by gunmen in northern Afghanistan.
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Search teams scoured snow-covered slopes on Sunday for two missing skiers who were last seen at a Lake Tahoe resort during a storm that dumped more than 2 feet of snow.