On a sunny midweek morning last month, the risk of an avalanche across a broad swath of the Swiss Alps was judged to be “considerable”, according to a daily bulletin issued by the Swiss Institute for ...

After the avalanche winter of 1950/51, SLF researchers developed a system for mapping areas at risk from avalanches. The ...

After 1951, the SLF stepped up its research into avalanche protection. The findings led to a move away from walls, the usual defence mechanism until then, towards the snow bridges and snow nets that ...

Snowboarder Ueli Kestenholz, an Olympic bronze medalist from Switzerland, died on Sunday after being trapped in an avalanche in the Swiss Alps. Kestenholz, who medaled while snowboarding during the ...