Who is at risk in the backcountry?

Whenever someone gets injured or killed in an avalanche, it is a tragedy, for the individual, for his or her family and for society as a whole. But let us be honest, for most of us the probability of getting caught in an avalanche is still relatively low and the health benefits and economic contributions that backcountry touring give rise to are potentially very large. So the solution to the problem of people triggering and getting caught in avalanches is not abstinence, …