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Avalanche danger is growing in the Centennial Mountains, the Gallatin and Madison ranges and the Swan Range.

The United States had 15 fatalities from avalanches in the past week, the most to take place over a 7-day period in more than a century, BuzzFeed News reports.

Sarah Moughamian was one of four skiers killed in Saturday's Mill Creek avalanche in Utah.(Facebook) Army Ranger Matthew Nyman survived a helicopter crash in Iraq that crushed his foot but he learned to climb again, most recently on Alaska's Bear Mountain. Mr Jessen, Ms Moughamian and Mr Nyman are just three of the 14 people who've died in avalanches since February 1. READ MORE: The bodies of three skiers have been found.(Office of Emergency Management, San Juan County) It's the highest number of avalanche deaths recorded in a seven-day period since the US Forest Service's National Avalanche ...

A Washington state trooper was killed in an avalanche while snowmobiling Monday in Kittitas County, Washington, the county sheriff's office said in a press release.

A Washington state trooper was killed in an avalanche while snowmobiling, officials say Search-and-rescue crews recovered trooper Steve Houle, 51, of Cle Elum from the avalanche. He was a 28-year veteran of the Washington State Patrol, the Kittitas County Sheriff’s Office said in the release. He is at least the 15th person to die in an avalanche in little more than a week. The first seven days of the month marked a record for the deadliest week of US avalanches. “On behalf of the Sheriff’s Office, I would like to extend our deepest condolences to Trooper Houle’s family, friends and th...