The annual Powder Awards gives back to skiing in more ways than one. The 14th annual edition, held in Salt Lake City on December 6, raised over $10,000 for the event non-profit partners, High Fives ...

Many ski resorts in the western U.S. employ a four-legged workforce alongside human ski patrollers for one reason: They’re excellent at search and rescue, says President of Wasatch Backcountry ...

A new technology is being trialed in Colorado that can help search and rescue teams find missing parties in the backcountry in less than three minutes. The Lifeseeker was developed by Spanish ...

Bone-crushing avalanches taking down skiers. Wild grizzly bears mauling hikers. Kayakers pinned under boulders in a rushing river. These people would never get out alive without the help of a ...

(Many Washington counties have similar backcountry rescue groups.) Every SMR volunteer is vetted and qualified to respond to a winter dispatch initiated by a 911 call or someone activating a ...

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A stretcher carry event to raise money for a charity which helps find missing people will take place in Guildford today. Surrey Search & Rescue (Surrey SAR) is raising funds as it says demand has ...

COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS — Salt Lake County Search and Rescue is preparing for what could ... "Something like a simple knee injury in the backcountry, it may take three hours to get to that person ...

In an incident eerily similar to climber Joe Simpson's experience documented in the film and book Touching the Void, a hiker recently broke his ankle and spent an entire night crawling through the ...

and transported him in a secure rescue stretcher, or litter, back to the trailhead where an ambulance was waiting. Later that evening, the team responded to a hiker injured by a rolling boulder ...

Thank you for your interest in the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and our work responding to the world’s worst humanitarian crises, helping people to survive, recover and reclaim control of ...