It’s early afternoon and I’m sitting on a ridge just below the top of the Plan Joran cablecar on Les Grand Montets ski area in Chamonix. Whiteout conditions that brought at least six inches of fresh ...

It could instead save the lives of avalanche victims. Harris shared a first place industry prize this year with Warda Moosa and Mary Xiong for their development of a jacket and harness for skiers ...

Two other patrollers join him and after a couple of minutes, a skier named Tom is hauled out, brushing snow from his jacket ... buried in an avalanche. If this were a real-life scenario, Utah ...