He inadvertently captured the experience of being caught in a slab avalanche with this footage, showing exactly what happens when you find yourself sliding down as part of the top layer.

Over time, this process, combined with additional weight from new or wind-redistributed snow, is the prime culprit in slab avalanches, the most deadly and most common kind. In a safe, stable ...

Other avalanches are made up of slabs, which happen when a large layer of snow breaks away. Those account for most fatalities. Another kind of avalanche occurs when wind creates a cornice of snow ...

"The last reported avalanche from the range was on Friday where a solo skier triggered a fatal medium-sized persistent slab avalanche and took a ride down a nasty, consequence filled avalanche ...

This Sunday, March 23, 2025, image released by the Chugach National Forest Avalanche Center shows the aftermath of a slab avalanche that killed a snow machine rider on Saturday, March 22 ...

“This is the largest slab avalanche we’ve seen at Steamboat in almost two decades,” patroller Matt Hartsel said in the video. The slide swept down four advanced and expert runs that start at ...

In a preliminary report, the Utah Avalanche Center said Wright “was caught, carried, and fully buried in a large hard slab avalanche.” Dave Sparks told Fox 13 Salt Lake City that his team at ...

A 37-year-old man was killed in an avalanche in the Utah backcountry while snowmobiling Monday, authorities said. Scott Wright, from Evanston, Wyoming, was snowmobiling with a friend in the Monte ...

One of the skiers died in the soft-slab avalanche, the Utah Avalanche Center reported. The other had to be airlifted by helicopter with serious leg injuries. The cause of the avalanche remains ...