A snowboarder narrowly escaped an avalanche on Mount Washington's Tuckerman Ravine last week ... Scanlan said fresh snow on a steep slope significantly increases the risk of avalanches.

The Tuckerman Ravine Trail - a south-eastern part of the mountain where Saltsburg fell - has "highly exposed steep cliffs and slopes below it", the forest service says on its website. "The ...

Madison Saltsburg was killed after slipping off Tuckerman Ravine, a vertical glacial slope on the southeast face of the towering New England peak, NBC affiliate WBTS-TV News reported. The fatal ...

Dec. 26—A large natural avalanche took place on part of Tuckerman Ravine on Christmas Eve. The avalanche occurred on Hillman's Highway just after 1 p.m. after several inches of new snow and ...