Although Australia’s alpine region is often dismissed as not at high risk of avalanches, the changing climactic conditions in which large volumes of snow are falling at higher elevations, combined with more rapid temperature fluctuations, is a recipe for avalanches.Plus the popularity of backcountry skiing and snowboarding has skyrocketed in recent years, with some estimates the number of Explorers active or interested in the backcountry quadrupling.That means more people are spending more time in increasingly risky alpine regions.