WOF 2013#52 English: Outdoorsports Team - The Fascination of ski Mountaineering

Ski Mountaineering

Outdoorsportsteam 2013 - Fascination of Ski Mountaineering

December 2013

White peaks, remote slopes, and virgin nature: ski mountaineering is today’s biggest alpine trend. For a long time, the athletic way of ski touring had been pushed aside by the growth of lift structures and the modernisation of alpine skiing. But in recent years, the sport has developed quickly and now is seen as the fastest growing mountain sport. The movie “The Fascination Of Ski Mountaineering” shows four Austrian top athletes at a top-class skiing adventure: the high-alpine ski tour from Mittelbergjoch over Taschach glacier to Wildspitze peak.

Ski Mountaineering is the most original kind of skiing and even was an Olympic discipline from 1924 to 1948. Thanks to new and progressive equipment, the sport has boomed in recent years like no other.