A skier shared POV footage from a heli-skiing trip in the San Juan Mountains on March 1st, 2024. He inadvertently captured the experience of being caught in a slab avalanche with this footage ...

Take, for example, the two heaviest slabs that break off Rio de Janeiro and surrounding coastlines to the south: Shock and Avalanche. Yes, they break how they sound.

According to the post, the avalanche was about 328 feet across, 656 feet long, and, in some places, six and a half feet deep.

Forecasting a snow avalanche takes more than measuring the angle of a mountain slope, researchers report in the July 11 Science. Whether an avalanche happens might also depend on how the snow ...

Yesterday, the Utah Avalanche Center posted to X (twitter) reminding skiers to stay safe, and stay aware of snow conditions as well as their surroundings. The center reported that "hard slabs of ...

An slab avalanche can be triggered in a valley or even on a flat snowfield, new research suggests. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

She said avalanches are caused by two types of snow: dry and wet. "A dry snow avalanche sometimes is what we call a slab avalanche, which will start because of weaknesses in the snowpack," Nolin said.

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Led by Johan Gaume at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), the team used calculations, computer simulations and observations from real slab avalanches to show that the cracks ...

Washington resident Nicholas Vizzini, 29, died after he was caught in a soft slab avalanche around 6:15 p.m. local time on Tuesday, June 10, the National Park Service said via a press release ...