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If you’re on a snow bridge when it collapses — and they all collapse eventually — you can be swept away and trapped beneath the snow and ice.

At another, they realized they were on a snow bridge across a cascading stream they hadn’t noticed on the way up.

A member of the Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue team stayed overnight with the man who fell from Snow Bridge.

Forest Service has tentatively approved a plan to build two chairlifts and a snow bridge across a state highway southwest of Reno to allow skiers at the Mount Rose Ski resort to access 11 new trails proposed farther down the mountain.

I look at the wall of blue ice directly in front of me, take a deep breath and peer up at the tiny hole I made when I fell through the snow bridge spanning the crevasse – the same bridge Sean had crossed without incident as we made our way up Alaska’s Matanuska Glacier towards Mount Marcus Baker in the Chugach Range.