Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Kraxeln as Iceman.

One of the most famous climbers was a Stone Age man: Before about 5300 years, Iceman in the Austrian mountains to hunt. Hikers can access a one-week tour his alleged routes - and hidden gems to discover in the Alps.

 


He had no other choice. We do this voluntarily. Accordingly, should now also no more than the thick gray clouds complain, which is now so deeply over the Kleinwalsertal depend that we feel that we could compare them with our umbrella tops broach. That is not even necessary, it pours anyway. For him, the former certainly a bigger problem: The leggings of fur in a flash of water and grass cloak had not determined Imprägnierschutz. The toes, which with coarse stitches sewed together from brown boots and deerskin stuck, were ruckzuck cold.


Here it is not, in his large backpack is not at least a fleece pullover, a softshell jacket, breathable underwear and a rain jacket has. If he does not have a thing or two about garment has withdrawn. It rains, yes. And the fierce wind whistling around the Widderstein around. But we do not want to walk like the famous Stone Age man, but on its tracks. "Ötzi the Alps" is the one-week tour of the Kleinwalsertal Bergschule organized.


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"A modern outdoor hiking clothes or would have the capacity Ötzis while hunting or crossing the Alps have significantly improved." It was just an expensive series of tests from the Hohenstein Institutes need to ensure that humanity came to this realization. Had the scientists but just wrapped in thick Gore-Tex clothes in heavy rain over an Alpine pass, and then at the museum in Bolzano, the equipment of Ötzi only visual, they had a lot of work can save.

Sun is now officially recognized that we are better equipped than Iceman. And still freeze. In contrast, the only movement, but Mountainguide Helmut Eberle sets right at the start of the tour to stop in Gemsteltal On.

He bends down and lifts a little greasy-green stone, which is hardly longer than one of his finger tendons. "Radiolarit," he says, and the little stone reckt like a winner's trophy in the air, so that all are aware of the group. "Hardness six. Unheimlich important for Ötzis then." They made this tool, knives, saws, arrowheads. Meanwhile, the group went to its knees in nullkommanix everyone finds a piece Radiolarit.


Stone finds while hiking


Kleinwalsertal the scientists write in the Stone Age plays an important role in the national supply of the steel-hard rock. Mountainguide Eberle has already aufgelesen specimens in which very fine grooves are incorporated. From a human hand. Prior to 4000, 5000 years ago. "Such a fund is great." Detlef Willand, a good friend of Eberle, is it even succeeded in Kleinwalsertal demonstrate a scientific sensation: He has discovered a mine in which our ancestors in the middle Stone Age have Radiolarit dismantled. To date, the world of scholars assumed that the people of that time in rivers after Radiolarit and searched and Co. until 2000 years later on the clever idea came to the rock trimmed.


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The mine is now just about us, unfortunately, not accessible without extensive climbing. But this place, we have ensured that the "Alps Iceman" even exists. Willand Eberle and felt encouraged by the findings in the Kleinwalsertal and meticulously worked out a route, the Iceman and Co., with high probability, have chosen to move from north to south to be drawn.

The Stone Age tour of our walking group gives a lot of advantages. After the rain, we can in the evening in the hotel room to enjoy a hot shower, the wet stuff in the spacious room to spread and dry in the morning doubles entgegenschlummern. Not that our Mountainguide a luxury fanatics would. But we are moving with the same tactics as Ötzi: on flat passes and yokes and before dusk descend again.

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