
3 skiers buried in over 40 feet of snow after Alaska avalanche
Alaska Wildlife Troopers said an avalanche buried three skiers under a blanket of snow between 40 and 100 feet deep in a small resort town.
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Alaska Wildlife Troopers said an avalanche buried three skiers under a blanket of snow between 40 and 100 feet deep in a small resort town.
The incident occurred near the Mana Pass in northern Uttarakhand state on Friday, initially trapping 55 construction workers.
Officials in India say more than 40 construction workers are missing after an avalanche hit their camp in Uttarakhand state.
Search and rescue crews on Tuesday recovered the bodies of two skiers killed in an avalanche in Oregon's Cascade Mountains. The victims' names have not been released.
In Oregon's Cascade Mountains, an avalanche killed two backcountry skiers, while another was killed in an avalanche near South Lake Tahoe, authorities said.
The large avalanche happened Saturday in a backcountry area about 20 miles east of Grand Teton National Park.
The unidentified pair of brothers and their father were snowmobiling on Christmas Eve when the avalanche swept through.
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One skier was rescued and two were killed following an avalanche Thursday in the mountains outside of Salt Lake City. CBS affiliate KUTV's Kirsten McPeek reports.
One skier was rescued and two were killed following an avalanche Thursday in the mountains outside of Salt Lake City.
The victims were a 15-year-old American boy, as well as a man and a woman whose identification has not yet been concluded, police said.
Bystanders were performing CPR on Nick Burks as deputies, firefighters, and search and rescue crews arrived, but the efforts to revive him were unsuccessful, officials said.
Two snowmobilers are dead after separate avalanches took place on Friday, March 1.
Police in Japan say an American man in his 30s was killed by an avalanche in a backcountry area of Mt. Mitahara.
Kyrgyzstan's state media said the avalanche occurred in the country's northeast, close to the border with Kazakhstan and China.
"These victims had all the necessary safety gear and it still proved deadly," authorities said.
The woman was one of five skiers on Prospector's Mountain in Grand Teton National Park.
The victim was swept into a gully, then remained buried for about 15 minutes before being found by a companion in the mountains, officials said.
It came the same day as a ski resort in the Lake Tahoe area reported a second avalanche after one there the day before claimed the life of one person and injured another.
Palisades Tahoe ski resort reported a second avalanche on Thursday, one day after a first avalanche claimed the life of one person and injured another.
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