As an ex-pro snowboarder and an avalanche researcher, I know how easily people can get into trouble, says alpine mass movements professor Johan Gaume ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A passenger captured the moment an avalanche roared down a mountainside and slammed into a train near Zermatt, Switzerland, on Feb ...

This is the terrifying moment an avalanche cascaded down a mountain in Zermatt, Switzerland on February 17 and engulfed a train full of passengers. No one was injured, authorities evacuated the ...

Avalanche crashes into moving train in Swiss Alps A tourist captured the moment an avalanche slammed into a train near Zermatt in Switzerland’s Valais canton on February 17. Passengers were stranded ...

Avalanche derails train in Switzerland Video shows an avalanche causes a train to derail in Switzerland.

PARIS (AP) — Julie Pomagalski, a former Olympic snowboarder from France, has died in an avalanche in the Swiss Alps. She was 40. Pomagalski competed in the parallel giant slalom at the 2002 Salt Lake ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - A 21-year-old Swiss snowboarding champion died in an avalanche on Tuesday after a slab of snow broke away during a film shoot in Switzerland and swept her down a narrow, rocky slope ...

A deadly avalanche buried a group of backcountry skiers and their guides near Lake Tahoe in California’s Sierra Nevada as an intense storm brought heavy snow to the region on February 17. Six of the ...