Advertisement
National parks authorities fear visitors are venturing dangerously unprepared into the bush, inspired by social media images and taking serious risks after emerging from months of lockdown in the city.
Mount Buller is among the locations where emergency services have carried out the most high angle rescues.
Growing concerns about the summer holidays come as new figures showed Mount Buller, Mount Buffalo, Taggerty and Arapiles were locations where emergency services were conducting the most treacherous and complex rescues at great heights.
Figures supplied by the Victoria State Emergency Service showed it conducted 365 high-angle rescues in the five years to 2020 across the state. These are complex rescue operations carried out at major heights with slopes of at least 60 degrees.