on d w as he's got any issues with also graham a little bit with ah ah, ah, ah, in it's evening in is get ostrom. it's peak season for the ski resort. a to roll, but there's not much going on. even though the co related curfew was lifted a few days ago,

a lot has changed since cove. it even went skiing, especially here in is gillan austria. there was a covert outbreak here in 2020 that had an impact on the whole of europe. at that time, many people got infected in the upper ascii bars and then took the virus back to their respective home countries. the resort operators were accused of negligence. there was even a criminal investigation, but the case was dropped in november 2021. well, what has happened since then? how does winter sports work in a former corona hot spot and what's the app risky all about? that's what i want to find out. and that's why i went to school ah, at the top of my to do list skiing on the slopes of is killed. i also want to try tracking and deep snow in snowshoes.

and of course, i'll visit in every ski bar house. the party with pandemic routes. ah! while driving up to the mountains, i watched as the grey and rainy skies gave way to sunshine. i am really starting to get into the spirit of things. i can't wait to get out on the slopes. it. oh god. god. oh, god, she one with this is a song by voice gun. i'm both. it's like the unofficial austrian winters sports anthem. well, and even though the songs in german, i only understand half of it because it's sung an austrian dialect,

but i definitely understand what he wants to say with the song she foreign. well, skiing is the most beautiful thing you can imagine and, well, this could be the motor for my trip. right. after setting out in munich, i drove across the german austrian border to escalate to role is gill is a place that is almost entirely focused on tourism 3 mountain cable cars take winter sports enthusiasts from the village to the slopes. if skiing is your thing, there are plenty of options here that puts non ish go sky area is one of the largest in the ups. but 1st i need the right equip. there are ski rentals all over the place. first, you have to check in and provide information about your height, weights and level of ability and sent

i'm going to get professional help to make sure my equipment fits properly. to def, under this beat, together all the way back and stand out with so and here we go. alina anson, i believe 1st the boots for i'm getting hot, just putting them on their pretty tight, but then they do need to give you support. that's awesome. oh, oh oh sure, john with us at last. here are the skis, poles and

a helmet with a boy anchor or comfortable with a beard, with the entire package cost about $50.00 euros for one date. thank you. good luck with and then of course there's also the day pass for the cable car up the mountain and for the ski lift on the slopes, that's another 60 euro. so skiing is not cheap, but the ski area is really big, but there are no cues. and plenty of room for every one right now is gill is only 70 percent full due to the pandemic.

i definitely be the sophie there. with the sun glazing here at 2300 meters. a bit of sunscreen is recommended. i was told that there are a lot of easier blue level slopes here at the dub station. well, just right for a beginner like me.

i came down this slope and i didn't fall after a lot of fresh snow in the last few days. the slopes are in excellent condition. he was that bad, right? i'm not the only one who's decided to use this sunny day to go skiing. there's a lot going on at the mountain station. will come way from switzerland. i'm from romania, but i live in germany. berlin, western germany, avi, i'm from slovakia. where are you from?

i'm from ultradent in the netherlands. we're from belgium passed away the main and so it's raymond mariner, but what the scheme mean to you personally on freedom fun. we love to party here. it goes amazing. in how do you feel about app risky? is that part of the experience a buyer? yeah, definitely. we start at lunch time. what happens after skiing app risky time here is glory. yes. i am both of those. i should get various to guess what? there are some in our group that don't drink at all while they're stealing from the others who do treat themselves to a beer when they take a break. and then they head to the bar afterwards to relax a bit more and them spawn. india ok, relaxing mean strictly more. yeah. okay. but if you're going down the slope with alcohol, isn't that little danger? you think so? there we are. i was way at him. where widely's? ah,

in the afternoon the sky enthusiasts returned from the slopes to the village. then it tends to get crowded in a skilled. it's time for apparatus ski. these days the parties are pretty tone down a far cry from the excesses of the past. her when i hear about is girl, i don't just think about skiing, but also about app risky. well, having a drink after ski and the photographer lloyd session black now captured how excessive the ap risky was here before the pandemic. take a look of this. ah, partying, and it's good for alpine delirium as life hastens like because in

his photos vividly captured the excesses of math tourism initiative. before the pandemic today of motion, i wanted to see how far the tourist industry could go was old lorden and said, i'm actually what does it look like when you turned it up to the max of be some uncollected typed for more than 25 years. patient like, nor has documented the uncontrolled mass tourism in austria's mountains. he's produced some $9000.00 photos, including many taken an issue with famed for its apis. she parties. when the pandemic it is good, quickly became infamous as a coven 19 super spreader resort. even prior to the pandemic, haitians, likeness photos, highlighted the huge cost of mass tourism to escalate cultural landscape. mm. but the photographer is not unsympathetic to the needs of the tourists

or their hosts. eskegal dismissal from us. i'm not opposed to tourism to learn or even master is a b, it's a fact of life that masses of people are looking to be entertained. the question how we cater for that out? mid us. perhaps lice haitian blackness photos could help the alpine tourist industry to reflect on its future. it's certainly a question that issue is facing right now. should everything go back to the way it was before or become quite different? ah, ish, gill is no longer a mountain idle. it's all about mass tourism. before the pandemic, there were 1400000 overnight stays a year in this town of 1600 inhabitants. and one of the numerous hotels i meet on a cheated on. he runs the shots hotel and is also deputy chairman of the tourism association at either. mr. cheated off on the austria in skiing,

somehow go together. austrians a said to have a very close relationship with skiing. what would you say? yes, that's definitely true by the austria and to role, especially in are right in the heart of the alps on start. so it's quite natural that many people grow up in the mountains in about people learn to ski when they're young and she so they have a close affinity with it. miss williams and many consider austria as the birthplace of skiing as a sport is to give you the chief sports. so you ski, of course i started when i was 3 years old. okay. what i went on to was, was you all to work in tourism, basically every one of your works and tourism here. well, how does it feel to be starting up again after 2 quiet years? my it's, i am student on is i, it's because up with it and it's been a very challenging time for every one of the of it. we're passionate about hosting guest, the things interests. and so we're delighted to be able to return to doing what we do best with us. this is also which is offering people beautiful on relaxing and

healthy holidays, those mountain via non godsa. then there was that time when isc, you'll hit the headlines as a covert hotspot. how did you experience that time will not support his oxide? the hotness of young v d. the tight lips. yet with an a and a sir. honestly, it was a very challenging, tired, so to live to this ticket as a hotel. yea. and because of my position at the tourist association i'm, i was involved in everything that was happening thus via i live. and i can tell you that we were very focused on it hearing as best we could of several to all the official coping restrictions. emmons with another good comments in and i'm very pleased that the investigation that followed confirmed quite clearly this and that is guilty. sip was just hit by the pandemic in the same way. the rest of the world was debated as a service. we were all in the same situations on the, on the note the of the vote against the whole thing had something to do with api ski with the excesses of api skis. where does that actually come from the ap risky

i but he is and of what's been in hop race ski started out as people rounding off a day of skiing in a cozy location in an hour. and i can move to the location and i know enjoying drinks with france. they justifying aunt a good thing, but he changed over time. of course she to include more of an entertainment factor on how this, how to him, a male gradually evolving into what it is to danielman on an angle of b. this how is that? what's important to us here initial via gun is that we try to offer high quality. now pray scheme, thus me that home quality, it facilitates was edson easily. what's the plan for ap risky year in the future? and at the latest, out of the focus of the, obviously our focus here too is improving the quality of a fit for breast. what improvements could we make effect on? but well, it starts with the buildings. we use more than that. we want them to be better with more moderate and more attractive eyes,

and then we want to improve the food that we offer, and the range of drinks lumpy to the style of music and the level of security who are to some bowsprit. so, less hulu and all those classic skiing songs against she classical, i'm just a more styling class that was go. what about the big is skillset that's not been coming here for years. i'll the day come when they say now it's just like it used to be on, or maybe you don't want that. what was the 1st guy? ah, as, as of it would be difficult to return to how it used to be. so explain come, you can't turn back the clock for said that of, but i really hope that the boost and quality that we plan out. so if you will cause guests and fans of ish calculus to feel that it's even better than it used to be. is this notion of before you ah, in fact, it could be very simple. just enjoy nature without any trouts. for example, on a snow shoe hike. okay,

okay. lucas him. let's put our snowshoes on the on. i'm going on more like this. yeah. but yeah. checks with you what the left one on 1st and tighten it. one size fits all line. hightail they said yes, they fit every one day that i know with a snow shoe. ike is especially beautiful if it snowed heavily in the days before. you can really slow down and relax ah, what's ross? deeper yeah. oh, what's happened to you? oh yeah. oh do we need to be careful here? i feel it'll probably give way and most. and is there a bridge?

yeah, there might be ash. why did you hear that earth? yes. air. oh wow. country now if you're fine to fall in an anna, don't run it. that won't help. okay. clog may look at how beautiful it is. oh yeah. for covered with snow. but it's so difficult to estimate how deep the snow is or how do you know how rare i've spent years walking this area of it is always a sobriety. yeah. you never know. it's guns, clark. ah, i think i like this better than skiing. but i'm glad to have an experienced guide with me. i can't help feeling a little anxious. now there's no need to worry. hm. i don't know what's the front

of me. i'm a bench at worst lang. oh, oh. so you're a bit unlucky. it's like quicksand. what? where did you end up? oh, i have to do my way out how to read. if you need to take a step back backwards in her to quit. and there is, oh, not again of i shall remember. just imagine you were out without any snow shoes on break because our let us think, oh your shoes. come honestly she wake up. i didn't even notice my snow. she was gone with me for the madonna monotony

it is. i underestimated the whole thing. i thought we'd be strolling through the snow, but every step is to struggle. do people have to be fit for this fits antibiotic? yes, they do is and able to walk. well, that's important. linelle along with good put gear issue out. i noticed how the snow shifted somehow and then there were creepy noises. how dangerous is that is a guide necessary guide. you did that. i little see that i yes, it's wise to take a guide. i rented some by for a few fall down somewhere and it was stanley. she says that there's also the risk of avalanche, a song again of 2 or you go into a valley and have the slope towering over you. i don't. and then it's suddenly all comes down on you and it's dangerous and convinced you have to be able to gauge how great the risk of an avalanche is really rises or i'd only continue if i was sure of anita and russel. ah,

at the end of my tour, robin wants to take me to a good vantage point, but of course it will take some effort to get there. ah ah it said he asked, this is the 1st season after cove it is it still slow at the moment or already back to pre covered levels we lift us his life lungs of no. it's only starting out slowly on life. it's bound to take a few years before it gets back to normal, culminating, most massage. most people are in confident enough to come here yet. but what could

happen out here in the fresh air was wendy. my, obviously you need to keep your distance and wear a mask when using the lips, but otherwise it's fine for me. the problem is the bar. if the i did, yes, there the problem. but even there, if, if you keep your distance, then i don't think it's a problem, probably infinity with loss based on your experience. how do you think this will develop over the next few years? and how does that? i think the numbers will gradually increase, but at the opry, ski won't ever be like it was all. everything will take time. but i don't think that will return traits here more of the views, the same food has mix. the view is the same with or without coven. i know that me now i want to know how does appraise sky work an issue with the pandemic? with my vaccination certificate, i can get in no problem. i've chosen one of the class here at breski bars. the champagne hot i was told the music wasn't

that loud anymore and you also need to have a seat. but what else? well, there is no shortage of champagne. i have gump up the head of the champagne hut. make sure of that. ah, ah ah. ah, wasn't that a man? what do you think makes epsky so special? my operation operates ski is what we had before the pandemic. i double but because of covered done, we can't have the loud parties like we used to use it. allows people aren't allowed

to dance if he's done some in john, we have to make sure they all stay see them. it's just different. but on the hall, yeah, you can hear the music isn't loud with dick gunther, larry, but after a couple bottles of jen, people start to get into the spirit anyway, due to the fact of it and for those youngsters, do you think that vibe will come back i'm convinced of it. it's just a matter of time. yeah. but how soon? 5. hopefully next year already. but it's impossible to say that at some stage it'll go back to what it was before. thank you of that's enough. ah, one tip at the end of my trip is skill offer is nights letting twice a week. the slope is regrouped after the day of skiing so that you can enjoy the mountain air and down the fun. even if you don't ski

from here, it's 7 kilometers downhill. i'm excited. ah ah, ah, with as you can see it so much fun. i could see lots of beaming faces with

with this is really fast. sometimes it's too fast, but it's so much with you can have a lot of fun. erin is guilt, especially those travellers who want to get moving in winter, in the snow on the slopes, all the toboggan run. well, and the fact that the app risky excesses are over for the time being. that doesn't bother me. on the contrary, the combination of winter sports a little every ski and tranquillity is very pleasant.

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