The group was traveling with guides from a commercial heli-skiing operation, which escorts backcountry skiers via helicopter to the tops of mountains that are otherwise inaccessible.

Three skiers are feared dead after an avalanche buried them Tuesday afternoon near the skiing community of Girdwood, Alaska, ...

Multiple heli-skiers were trapped in an avalanche near Girdwood, Alaska, on Tuesday afternoon, and a search effort is underway to rescue them despite deep snow complicating recovery efforts ...

The Chugach National Forest Avalanche Information Center also issued a special bulletin warning of dangerous avalanche conditions in the mountains across a wide swath of Southcentral Alaska.

POWDERreported on a devastating avalanche that claimed the lives of three heli-skiers on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. The victims ...

Three people are feared to be dead after being buried by a large avalanche while on a guided heli-skiing trip near Girdwood, ...

BIGFORK — Recovery efforts have been delayed in Alaska after an avalanche killed three men who were heli-skiing, including a ...

Three men with Minnesota ties are among the missing and feared dead after an avalanche in Girdwood, Alaska, last Tuesday.

The slide caught the heli-skiers late Tuesday afternoon in the Chugach Mountains near the skiing community of Girdwood, located about 40 miles (64 kilometers) south of Anchorage, said McDaniel.

They then ski or snowboard down. As the slide began, witnesses saw the men deploy their avalanche air bags — inflatable vests meant to keep avalanche victims above or near the surface, Knutson said.

Only a few ski resorts have received more snow than Alta Ski Area, Utah, this winter.