Three Spanish cross-country skiers died after being engulfed by an avalanche in the Swiss Alps, police said Sunday. Police in the canton of Valais said two fellow skiers survived the avalanche, which ...

The three heli-skiiers who were killed in an avalanche north of Terrace, B.C., over the weekend were Swiss nationals, according to the Swiss Consulate General in Vancouver. A group of four people were ...

There is an acute danger of avalanches in several regions of the Alps. In Valais, roads and railroad lines are closed and some residents have been evacuated. An overview of the situation.

An avalanche at a ski station in the Swiss Alps engulfed up to a dozen people on Tuesday, a local official and media reports said, with hopes fading of finding survivors in a disaster that hit a ...

Switzerland’s national snowboard cross team is mourning the loss of one of their own after Olympian Sophie Hediger died in an avalanche on Monday. She was 26. Hediger was swept up in an avalanche in ...

High in the Swiss Alps, Fabrice Meyer and his security team trigger minor avalanches to prevent major disasters. “In some professions, you learn everything in 10 or 12 years,” says avalanche-security ...