Wolverhampton Mountaineering Club

Club magazine 1999

From ...Ski Touring in the Otztaler Alps
by Ralph Atkinson

.....and so it was the following morning that preparations saw us leaving the hut at 7.30am and a gentle 'skin' onto the Langtaler Glacier, about five kilometres before any real steepening occurred. As ever, when venturing onto steeper slopes for the first time each season I ask myself the question "How am I going to ski down here?" But a few tentative manoeuvres and confidence begins to grow..... British ski tourers are still a rare breed in the Alps and they are keen to hear of our interest in this discipline of mountaineering.