This is how Easy it is to Trigger an Inbounds Avalanche – Video

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Europe’s attitude to avalanche safety control essentially goes like this: if it threatens a marked piste, they control it; if it doesn’t, they don’t. For that reason, riding off-piste – as you would in most other ski destinations – carries a whole other element of risk and self-management. Recently in Ischgl, a popular ski resort in Austria’s Tyrol, one snowboarder learnt this lesson the hard way.