A 65-year-old ski tourer has died following a collision with a downhill skier at a ski resort in the Austrian state of Salzburg, police confirmed on Saturday, February 7. The accident occurred around midday on Saturday on the Schwarzeckal slope in Maria Alm-a small resort, which is part of the Hochkönig Ski Area -under circumstances that are currently under investigation.
Having settled on where to ski in Norway, I found myself packing up the Kvikk Lunsj wafers and sweet brown brunost cheese sandwiches at the glassy Juvet Landscape Hotel, deep in the Sunnmøre Alps. Then the slow ascent, with skins on our splitboard skis, up to the peak at Mefjellet: torturous in some ways, looking at all that glinting Care Bear snow all the way up, but also a deliciously tantric act of meditation and delayed gratification.