Alaska Wildlife Troopers said an avalanche buried three skiers under a blanket of snow between 40 and 100 feet deep in a ...
“Using avalanche beacons, the guides identified a probable area where skiers were buried between 40 feet and nearly 100 feet ...
The large avalanche occurred Tuesday afternoon in the Chugach Mountains near Girdwood, according to the Alaska Department of ...
This is Alaska’s first fatal avalanche reported this season. It is also the country’s deadliest since February 2023.
Troopers identified the three missing skiers caught in the avalanche as David Linder, Charles Eppard and Jeremy Leif.
Three heli-skiers are presumed dead after they were caught in an avalanche Tuesday, Alaska State Troopers said Wednesday in a ...
Guides from the heli-skiing company attempted to locate the trapped skiers using avalanche beacons and identified a probable ...
Radio Mankato identified one of the skiers caught in the backcountry avalanche as David Linder, who was part of a heli-skiing ...
The group was traveling with guides from a commercial heli-skiing operation, which escorts backcountry skiers via helicopter ...
If the deaths are confirmed, it would be the deadliest U.S. avalanche since three climbers were killed in a slide in ...