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Do you have speed in your DNA? Does your pulse beat to the motion of the stopwatch? In a ski mountaineering race, are you permenantly in the overtacking track? If so, you are cut from the cloth of the hardcore ski and running athlete.
Not deterred by the world’s highest mountains? Searching for alpine challenges on touring skis? You simply transfer your activities as performance athlete to the high alpine environment? Then Speed Touring is for you.
Are you at home in the winter wonderland far away from crowded ski slopes? You enjoy the silence and isolation of eating lunch on a remote summit? Do majestic, challenging climbs with amazing views and long descents through powder snow make your heart beat faster? Then you are the very definition of a Ski Tourer.
Your winter begins with the first dump of powder? You’re not sure what a ski narrower than 95mm at the waist is for? You’re prepared to put up with a climb if there’s a really good descent at the end of it? If you answered these questions with „yes“, you’re a Free Tourer.
You love to run, just not on asphalt? Scree, mud and tree roots are your training partners? Are there names like Vibram Megagrip, Vibram Mapping Compound or Pomoca Gliding Path on the soles of your running shoes? Do steep downhills, ultralong distances and alpine trails raise your heart rate? Congratulations, you’re a real Alpine Runner.
You summit mountains dynamically, quickly and with ease? You’re not put off by the thought of several thousand vertical feet in a day? You prefer to be above the treeline? You have high alpine summits more or less permenently in your gaze? If all of the above is true, Athletic Mountainnering is your sport.
Who are you? Or - to put the question differently - which type of athlete are you? Maybe you're not even sure yourself? Then you're in the right place. Because we have only one condition - that you love mountain endurance sports. Racer or Free Tourer, Vertical or Ultra Runner - find and follow your passion here.