Alaska looms large in skiing’s collective imagination. From Sammy Carlson’s seasonal excursions to Teton Gravity Research’s slate of films, flick after flick has featured the towering peaks of the ...

Since the 1990s, well-heeled visitors have flocked to Valdez for some of the most famous adventures in the skiing world: guided helicopter tours to long, steep mountain slopes with untouched powder ...

A view of Girdwood, Alaska, from Mt. Alyeska. (Nathan Searles via WikiCommons) The three missing skiers who were reportedly buried under up to 100 feet of snow after an avalanche in the Alaska ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The body of one of three men killed in an avalanche while heli-skiing near Girdwood last March was recovered last week, according to state officials. The remains have not ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — 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 halted because of dangerous ...

Authorities say three people are dead after getting caught in an avalanche while heli-skiing in Alaska. The avalanche occurred on Tuesday, March 4, near the West Fork of 20 Mile River, by the town of ...

Heli-skiing can be incredibly expensive, with prices at top-tier lodge-based operations coming in at multiple thousands of dollars a day per person. However, many operations, particularly ones based ...

Three men flown by helicopter to the Alaska backcountry for a skiing trip are presumed dead after they were caught in a massive avalanche, authorities said Wednesday. The avalanche happened Tuesday ...

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One of the men killed in a Girdwood-area avalanche last March whose body was recovered earlier this week was identified as 39-year-old Charles Eppard, Alaska State Troopers said Friday. Eppard, of ...

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