A fierce winter storm brought incredibly strong winds to one of the country’s deadliest, most infamous mountain ranges. While storms ravaged most of the East Coast from Florida up to Maine with wind gusts topping 60mph,

Large and destructive avalanches are "very likely" on Mount Washington Monday due to extreme winds, forecasters say.

Significant snowfall from the weekend and the return of gusty winds will create a high risk of avalanches in parts of the White Mountains.

Ski patrollers from mountain resorts in California, Nevada, and Colorado are at Mammoth Mountain in the Eastern Sierras, helping to provide safety following an avalanche that caught two patrollers and left one critically injured.

Two ski patrol members were trying to mitigate the threat of an avalanche after a storm had dumped about 6 feet of snow on the mountain in 36 hours.

Mammoth Mountain officials said the slide occurred during avalanche mitigation work following a significant Sierra Nevada snowstorm, during which about six feet of snow fell in 36 hours.