Twelve-year-old Muntosh lost his older brother in a landslide while the two were working side-by-side in a cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Now, after six years in the quarries, ...

The snow burst through the trees with no warning but a last-second whoosh of sound, a two-story wall of white and Chris Rudolph’s piercing cry: “Avalanche! Elyse!” The very thing the 16 skiers and ...