He thanked his avalanche airbag for saving his life.

Brooke Day, 22, died last Friday after an accident on a chair lift at the Tsugaike Mountain Resort in Otari, Nagano ...

Swiss snowboard pioneer Ueli Kestenholz, who won bronze at snowboarding's 1998 Olympic debut in Nagano, died at age 50 in an avalanche, officials said Tuesday.

BERN, Switzerland (AP) — Snowboarder Ueli Kestenholz, who won a bronze medal in the sport’s first Olympic race, died after being trapped in an avalanche, the Swiss ski federation said Tuesday. He was ...

Switzerland's Ueli Kestenholz won bronze in the sport's inaugural Olympic event, the giant slalom at Nagano in 1998.

PARIS (AP) — Former Olympic snowboarder Julie Pomagalski of France died in an avalanche in the Swiss Alps earlier this week. She was 40. The French Ski Federation says Pomagalski died Tuesday. It did ...

Ueli Kestenholz, a Swiss Olympic snowboarder, has died after being trapped in an avalanche. He was 50. According to a report from People on Tuesday, January 13, Kestenholz was snowboarding in ...

The slide occurred on January 10 at Haiyaha Couloir, a steep gully in the park that is popular with backcountry skiers and snowboarders. Filmed from the point of view of one of the snowboarders, the ...

The man was snowboarding with a friend above the treeline on the north face of Buffalo mountain, just outside Frisco. It's a popular place for backcountry enthusiasts to ski and board."The main shoot ...