Designed to suit the needs of big-mountain athletes like Vivian Bruchez and Sean Pettit, Mountain Hardwear’s brand-new ...

Three heli-skiers are missing and presumed dead after being swept up in a massive avalanche in Alaska. According to the ...

An avalanche transceiver is a small piece of kit that sensible backcountry adventurers ... Though features and prices vary across beacons, ART reveals that its teams use the Mammut Barryvox ...

I’ve talked to people who told me they considered selling their backcountry ski kit after their avalanche safety course ... UMA instructor explains how to search for someone using an avalanche beacon.

In skiers' parlance, uphill skiing is another term for ski touring. Oftentimes, the phrase is used by ski areas to denote ski ...

Avalanche.org has a map of avalanche center forecasts across the U.S. Use the right gear: A beacon, shovel, and probe are the foundational kit items used by backcountry skiers. Without them ...

Guides from Chugach Powder Guides, the heli-skiing company that was running the trip, attempted to locate the trapped skiers using avalanche beacons and identified a probable area where they were ...

The guides used avalanche beacons to identify an area where the skiers were likely buried under 40 to nearly 100 feet of snow. Troopers said the skiers were unable to be immediately recovered due ...