Girdwood is a tourist community that caters to winter events, with downhill skiing and snowboarding at the Alyeska Resort in a spectacularly scenic location. After a gondola ride 3,200 feet (975 ...

While ski season typically runs from November to early April, snow-sport fanatics can hit the slopes at these seven resorts ...

The victims were skiing with Chugach Powder Guides, a heli-skiing operation based in Girdwood, Alaska on a run the guide ...

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

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.

Alaska state troopers say they, along with avalanche experts and a technical mountain rescue expert, determined it is not possible for a team to safely recover the bodies under the current conditions.

Efforts to recover the three men who died in an avalanche Tuesday while they were on a guided heli-ski trip in the Chugach Mountains near Girdwood were ...

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.

Alta reported Friday it has received over 400 inches of snowfall this season, making it one of the few in North America to do so this year.