Some ski patrollers are wearing avalanche backpacks that inflate to keep them at the top of a snow slide instead of getting buried underneath several feet of snow and possibly suffocating.

SEATTLE -- Nearly 30 years after his friend was killed by an avalanche on Mount Baker, Tom Waller was reunited with the victim's backpack. Waller and three others climbed Baker on August 3 ...

The SCOTT Patrol E1 30 Backpack Kit is the ultimate freeskiing avalanche backpack featuring the all new Alpride E1 Airbag system. This fully electronic airbag system pushes the boundaries of ...

But the airbags that skiers wear to avoid being buried in an avalanche don’t necessarily need to inflate as fast. So Black Diamond’s new JetForce backpack uses a fan instead of compressed air ...