At least 11 people were killed and six others injured after an avalanche struck a group of 33 climbers in Russia’s Mount Mizhirgi, one of the highest peaks in the North Caucasus, according to emergency officials.
Racing against the darkness, rescuers in California on Saturday saved a man who had become stranded on a ledge perched atop a soaring peak on the Sierra Nevada.
Monterey County investigators have ruled that a 37-year-old hiker found naked and dead on a remote Big Sur trail died of natural causes, ending months of speculation after her body was discovered with marks on her neck and a gash on her forehead. The Monterey County Sheriff's Office announced that its coroner concluded the investigation […] The post Big Sur hiker Joanna Shields died of alcohol withdrawal seizures, coroner rules appeared first on American Almanac .
Monterey County investigators have ruled that a 37-year-old hiker found naked and dead on a remote Big Sur trail died of natural causes, ending months of speculation after her body was discovered with marks on her neck and a gash on her forehead. The Monterey County Sheriff's Office announced that its coroner concluded the investigation into the death of Joanna Ruth Shields, determining the cause was "probable alcohol withdrawal seizures due to chronic alcohol use disorder." The manner of death: natural. No crime. No foul play. The marks that had fueled weeks of public suspicion turned out to be insect activity on a body left in the California wilderness. Shields was discovered on April 9 by a group of hikers along the Pine Ridge Trail…Open
The slide, which struck midweek during a severe winter storm, is now linked to nine fatalities, making it among the deadliest avalanche incidents in U.S. history.
A ninth victim who had been missing was found and recovered, officials said Saturday, from an avalanche that was the deadliest in modern California history.
If the party had waited out the storm in their cabins, one of the skiers said, the outcome might have been different.
Few laws govern backcountry skiing in California. Experts say that people engage in the sport at their own risk, but guides have responsibilities to keep clients safe.
One of the world's foremost avalanche experts said the answers to what went wrong the fatal Sierra Nevada Mountains will come from the survivors.
A man said his sisters regularly met up with their friends, many from Stanford University, to go on ski trips.
Eight skiers were killed and one other was presumed dead in the deadliest snow disaster in modern California history. Six were found alive.