A search is being conducted Monday afternoon for a male jet skier who fell into Rollins Reservoir, between Highway 174 and Interstate 80 in Placer County. Three jet skiers fell into the Colfax-area reservoir Monday morning, the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a statement on Facebook, and first responders were dispatched when calls came […]
The body of a skier reported overdue in Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state around three weeks ago was recovered at the base of a waterfall Saturday, park officials said Tuesday. The skier was reported overdue on May 19 and was last heard from the previous day, before she set out for a ski […]
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) –Two skiers were killed and another rescued following a backcountry avalanche Thursday morning near Lone Peak on the Wasatch Front. Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera confirmed shortly before 4 p.m. that the two skiers, whom rescue crews had spent hours searching for in rugged mountain terrain, were dead. What you […]
Two missing skiers are dead and a third man was rescued after an avalanche Thursday near the Lone Peak Summit area in Utah’s Wasatch Range, officials said. Search-and-rescue crews had been looking throughout the day for the two missing men, ages 23 and 32, who have been confirmed dead, Greater Salt Lake Police Sgt. Aymee […]
Despite modern chairlifts, fancy lodges, and groomed slopes, skiers are often reminded that the mountains they recreate in are still very much wild. Recently, skiers at Lake Louise Ski Resort in Alberta, Canada were treated to a rare encounter with a lynx litter right in the middle of a popular trail. Tap the video to watch […]
GENEVA (AP) — Five cross-country skiers — including members of the same Swiss family — were found dead along a high Alpine ridge after going missing over the weekend near Switzerland’s famed Matterhorn. Swiss police said Monday. Another skier remains missing. Christian Varone, commander of Valais regional police, told a news conference in Sion, Switzerland, […]
Five cross-country skiers have been found dead after going missing over the weekend near the Matterhorn mountain, Swiss police said. Rescue authorities had announced a search in difficult weather conditions for six skiers on Sunday. The group had set off on Saturday on a route between the resort town of Zermatt, at the foot of […]
A man died after being swept away in an avalanche with two other backcountry skiers, Alaska troopers say. The three men were climbing a mountain in the Chugach National Forest, planning to ski down, when “they triggered an avalanche and were all swept away” on Feb. 13, Alaska State Troopers said in a news release. […]
An avalanche in the Anthracite Range buried and killed a backcountry skier despite efforts by his companions to rescue him, Colorado officials reported. The avalanche took place around 1 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 11, in an area known as the Playground east of Ohio Peak, the Colorado Avalanche Information Center said. It caught and buried the […]
A 16-year-old snowboarder was hospitalized after she slipped out of her chairlift at Mammoth Mountain Ski Resort in California and fell several feet down onto the snow below, ABC7 reported. Video footage from the incident, that occurred on the morning of Jan. 27, shows the teenager dangling from the chairlift as her fellow riders hold […]
Rescuers in Vermont were in for a chilly search operation when a large group got lost in the woods, police said. The Killington Police Department received a call about some skiers who got lost in the woods on Jan. 20, according to its news release. Although the original report was about seven to nine people […]
Search-and-rescue teams brought 23 skiers and snowboarders who got lost in the Vermont backcountry to safety Saturday amid single-digit temperatures, authorities said. Officials were notified at 2:30 p.m. Saturday of seven to nine lost skiers and snowboarders, police in Killington, a town about 40 miles southwest of Montpelier, said in a news release. Killington police […]