The bodies of top mountaineer Alex Lowe and his cameraman have been found in a Himalayan glacier, 16 years after they were buried by an avalanche on one of the world's highest mountains.
A 21-year-old Swiss snowboarding champion died in an avalanche after a slab of snow broke away during a film shoot in Switzerland and swept her down a narrow, rocky slope.
An avalanche killed six skiers in the Italian Alps on Saturday, making it one of the deadliest to hit the area in many years, a fire department spokeswoman said.
An Indian soldier who survived being trapped under 25 feet (8 metres) of snow for six days after being caught in an avalanche died in hospital on Thursday.
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An Indian soldier's condition deteriorated Wednesday, two days after his dramatic rescue from under mounds of snow nearly a week after being buried alive in an avalanche, the army said.
An Indian soldier rescued nearly a week after he was buried by a deadly avalanche on the world's highest battleground was airlifted to Delhi in critical but stable condition, the army said.
Five people were killed in an avalanche that buried 17 people from the Czech Republic in Austria’s skiing region of Tyrol yesterday, police said.
Rescuers searched Wednesday for 10 soldiers feared buried in an avalanche in India's remote Himalayas near the de facto border with Pakistan, an army spokesman said.
Five snowmobilers were killed Friday after being buried in an avalanche in Canada's British Columbia (BC) province, officials said.
