Also killed were Whistler-based pro snowboarder Jeff Keenan, 44, who founded the snowboard company Dinosaurs Will Die, and ...

Three heli-skiers are missing and presumed dead after being swept up in a massive avalanche in Alaska. According to the ...

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With the aid of a beacon, participants used rescue probes to find a backpack standing in for a ... Iwaki got caught in an avalanche. Nine members of the group were briefly stranded.

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If weather permits, specialised RECCO radars, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), quadcopters and avalanche rescue dogs will be pressed into service to trace the missing workers, Lt Gen. Sengupta said.

Rescuers recovered the eighth and final body from the site of an avalanche in a remote area ... according to an Indian army statement. By Sunday, rescue teams had recovered the remaining bodies ...