The SBX backpack system from Safeback is designed to pull and deliver oxygen from snow if the wearer is buried by an avalanche, thus increasing their survival time. A group of intrepid volunteers has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At least eight backcountry skiers are dead after a group of 15 were swept away by an avalanche Tuesday near Castle Peak in the ...

(CNN) — The eight friends found joy in the mountains, skiing together across the untracked powder of the hushed, pristine wilderness of California’s Sierra Nevada – their close friendship standing out ...

At least eight backcountry skiers are dead after a group of 15 were swept away by an avalanche Tuesday near Castle Peak in the Lake Tahoe area, The Sacramento Bee reported. Six were rescued and the ...