The body of Tucker Challan, 16, was recovered from the avalanche site on Sunday morning, Alaska State Troopers said.

An avalanche impacted part of a lower-mountain chairlift Thursday at Alyeska Resort in Girdwood, closing the lift to skiers and snowboarders

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An image from the Haines Avalanche Center's Lutak Hillside weather station webcam on New Year's Day. The area saw nearly two metres of fresh snow fall over a few days last week.

HAINES, Alaska – An avalanche closed part of a highway in the borough of Haines, a small town about 90 miles north of Juneau in Alaska's panhandle on Tuesday night — the latest debris slide in the region after days of heavy rain triggered avalanches in ...

The Anchorage Nordic Ski Patrol, along with several local avalanche education organizations, hosted a free avalanche rescue training event on Feb. 15

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 10—High avalanche danger in the mountains around much of Southcentral Alaska prompted officials to issue a backcountry avalanche warning Saturday for areas from Anchorage to Seward.

The fatal avalanche in California on Tuesday is the deadliest avalanche the nation has faced since 1981. Eight skiers were killed in the Lake Tahoe region, and one remains missing.The only deadlier avalanche was in 1981 when 11 climbers were killed ascending Mount Rainer in Washington,

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A skier was buried for as long as 40 minutes in a massive avalanche today near the site where two snowmobilers were killed by another slide earlier this month. Ian Wilson of Portland was pulled out alive from four feet of snow, but was ...