The Man From The Cold

Hello everybody!

I returned from skiing holidays... planned by MC, he directed us to the Stubaier Gletscher area, which is a huge skiing resort located on a glacier in central Austria at 2500...3200 m above sea level.

What this means in the end of December is - very cold.
What we're talking about here is not the average run-of-the-mill type of cold, no, it's the biting oh-gosh-my-hand-falls-off kind of cold that creeps into little nooks you forgot to close in your clothing. It means that for the first time, I felt the cold seeping through my woolen cap and my long hairs and hurting my brains. Yes indeed. (How many brains do I have?) It means -22°C and strong winds, so including windchill this can safely be claimed to be -9000°C.

As you can see in the following, planning anything under these adverse conditions is not a piece of cake:






The mountains are great:



They are dangerous:



And since this is basically a central European country, they are very tidy, too:



And safe:



More to follow...