Injured woman rescued after avalanche sweeps her 1,500 feet downhill
The woman was one of five skiers on Prospector's Mountain in Grand Teton National Park.
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The woman was one of five skiers on Prospector's Mountain in Grand Teton National Park.
The victim was swept into a gully, then remained buried for about 15 minutes before being found by a companion in the mountains, officials said.
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It came the same day as a ski resort in the Lake Tahoe area reported a second avalanche after one there the day before claimed the life of one person and injured another.
Palisades Tahoe ski resort reported a second avalanche on Thursday, one day after a first avalanche claimed the life of one person and injured another.
A woman said she watched from a chairlift as an avalanche swept through the Palisades Tahoe ski resort in California on Wednesday, killing one person. CBS News' Carter Evans has more.
A powerful avalanche struck a section of expert trails at a California ski resort near Lake Tahoe on Wednesday, tragically killing one person and prompting rescues of others. CBS News' Carter Evans reports from Olympic Valley, California.
A woman who was buried under an avalanche at Palisades Tahoe on Wednesday was saved by a stranger and escaped with no injuries.
One skier was killed and at least one other hurt when an avalanche struck a ski resort in the Sierra Nevada Wednesday morning in Northern California's popular Lake Tahoe area. Andrew Hobner has the latest.
The 30-year-old man was transported to a Seattle hospital with symptoms of hypothermia, a broken arm and "significant abrasions," rescuers said.
At least six people were injured in the rockslide on a hiking trail near the Dead Sea Thursday, rescue workers said.
The Denali National Park and Preserve says "much loved" dispatcher and support services provider Eric Walter was backcountry skiing only a few miles from the park's entrance.
It was one of the country's deadliest avalanches in years.
At least four hikers were killed in an avalanche in the French Alps. Two others remained missing Sunday night.
Rescue efforts were still underway hours after the disaster, with an unknown number of people still feared trapped under the snow.
The avalanche had the potential to "easily bury and kill a person," said one official.
A snowmobiler and two skiers died in Colorado avalanches.
The western U.S. continued to contend with a powerful winter storm Friday that even prompted unprecedented blizzard warnings in Southern California. Parts of Nevada are under avalanche warnings and many major highways are closed. CBS News correspondent Carter Evans reports from Southern California.
Heavy snow and school holidays drew large crowds to the Alps over the weekend, where nine people died amid elevated avalanche risks.
A photographer who was taking part in the backcountry ski trip said Kyle Smaine was "thrown 50 meters by the air blast and buried" in the avalanche.
The skier was swept about 500 feet down the mountain before friends found him using a location-tracking device, police said.
The snowmobilers triggered the avalanche, the third fatal one this season in Colorado, authorities said.
Officials had warned of a high avalanche risk in the area over the weekend. The avalanche was on an almost 9,000 foot mountain.
Ten people were still missing. Bad weather was hampering the fourth day of search and rescue efforts.
The avalanche struck the 5,670-metre Mount Draupadi ka Danda-II.