Then the digging begins. Surviving an avalanche burial is a race against the clock. Most victims who survive the initial impact of an avalanche have 15 minutes before the warmth of their breath ...

Avalanche deaths are rare inbounds at ski resorts ... Backcountry skiers carry tools that can increase their chances of survival. Your best bet, though, is your peers – particularly in the ...

Along with a rise in the uptake of avalanche courses and increasingly efficient rescue teams, quicker detection and rescue of buried victims has also improved. The result: increased survival rates ...

Two winters before, three skiers died in a single slide not too far from Ophir. This winter, the avalanche danger in the area had been consistently considerable or higher. “And we were ...

So you can locate someone who has been covered by the snow Avalanche survival rates plummet after about 15 minutes for victims who do not die from trauma. Saving your partner is up to you!

SnowTrace, a popular blockchain explorer tool for Avalanche, will shut down its website — powered by Etherscan’s Explorer-as-a-Service (EaaS) toolkit — on Nov. 30. The SnowTrace team ...