ah, in it's evening in ish, gil ostrom, it's peak season for the sky resorted to roll, but there is 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 israel, in 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 ep risky 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 of 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 a skill 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, fun fun with. this is a song by voice going. i'm voice. 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 form. 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 kill 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. searched have under this feet together all the way back and stand out with so and here we go, lena. unseen, i believe at 1st the boots for i'm getting

hot. just putting them on their pretty tight, but then they do need to give you support. oh oh oh, she got it with us at last. here are the skis. got poles and a helmet with a boy anchor or comfortable like a bird with the entire package cost about $50.00 euros for one date, soccer. yes.

and then of course, there's also the dave has for the cable car up the mountain and for the ski lifts 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 blazing here at 2300 meters, a bit of sun screen is recommended. i

was told that there are a lot of easier blue leveled slopes here at the dub station. well, just right for a beginner like me. i came down this slope and i didn't pause after a lot of fresh snow in the last few days. the slopes are in excellent condition. it was that bad, right?

yes. i am 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. welcome away from switzerland . i'm from romania, but i live in germany. berlin, western germany a v i'm from slovakia. where are you from? i'm from walter down the netherlands here from belgium, passed away the main in the south straightness garrander. but what the ski 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 started lunch time. what happens after skiing app risky time her parents go? are you both a little doesn't it varies to guess what? there are some in our group that don't drink at all while they're stealing to help

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, and spawn india ok. relaxing means drinking more. yeah. okay. but if you're going down the slope with alcohol, isn't that little danger? you saw there we are. i was way at him. where widely's? ah. in the afternoon this in sue's yes returned from the slopes to the village. then it tends to get crowded minuscule. it's time for aperture ski. these days, the parties are pretty tone down a far cry from the excesses of the past. when

i hear about is gil, i don't just think about skiing, but also about app risky. well, having a drink after ski and the photographer lloyd session lightning captured how excessive the ap risky was here before the pandemic. they could look a vis, ah, partying, and it's good for alpine delirium as limitation, like because in his photos vividly captured the excesses of math tourism. initially, before the pandemic, georgia, commercial. and 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 unlocked it arrived for more than 25 years patient like, nor has documented the uncontrolled mass tourism in austria's mountains. he's

produced some 9000 photos, including many taken initiative, famed for its apis. she parties. when the pandemic hit this go quickly became infamous as a coven 19 super spreader resort. even prior to the pandemic, haitian likeness photos highlighted the huge cost of mass tourism to iskander cultural landscape. mm. but the photographer is not unsympathetic. the needs of the tourists or their health eskegal, his muscles must. i'm not opposed to tourism to learn or even mass tourism b. it's a fact of life that masses of people are looking to be entertained. you know, the question is how we cater for that? direct me those perhaps loyce haitian likeness photos could help the alpine tourist industry to reflect on its future. it's certainly a question that issues facing right now. should everything go back to the way it

was before or become quite different. ish, gill is no longer a mountain idle. it's all about mass tourism. before the pandemic, there were 1400000 over night stays a year in this town of 1600 inhabitants. and one of the numerous hotels i meet on a cheated on. he runs the shuffled hill and is also deputy chairman of the tourism association. if you miss that sheet it off, i'm in austria and skiing, somehow. go together. austrians. a said to have a very close relationship with skiing. what would you say? yes, that's definitely true. well, 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 chief, 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 the tree spots. so you ski,

of course i started when i was 3 years old. okay. when 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 to quiet years? my, it's, i am student on is i, it's because up the toilet and it's been a very challenging time for every one of the, of it's in we're passionate about hosting guests. 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 and relaxing and healthy holidays was muffin via and godsa. then there was that time when is school hit the headlines as a covert hotspot? how did you experience that time or not supporting shock? find the hotness of young via d, the tight lipped yet with us on a and her i'm school. it was a very challenging, tired, so to live through stickle as a hotel. yea. and because of my position at the tourist association on via 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 only official coban restriction amounts was another good commons in. and i'm very pleased that the investigation that followed confirmed quite clearly leasing that ish guilty sick was just hit by the pandemic in the same way. the rest of the world was that i did as a service. we were all in the same situation on the, on the note, if the vote against the whole thing had something to do with app risky with the excessive api scheme, where does that actually come from the ap risky i but he is and of what's been in hop race, gay started out as people rounding off a day of skiing in a cozy location in an hour and i can move the location now, not enjoying drinks with france. they justifying on a good thing. but he changed over time. of course, to include more of an entertainment factor on how this, how to him, a male gradually evolving into what it is to danielman aunt is on. i'm the soul of be this. how is that? what's important to us here?

initial via is that we try to offer high quality. now pray scheme, thus me that a home qualitative for school counselors hudson is really what's the plan for ap risky year in the future natal, at least out of the focus of the obviously our focus here too is improving the quality of a fit for based on 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, but more moderate and more attractive wise. and then we want to improve the food that we offer, and the range of drink, city must be through the style of music or, and the level of security who to some budget. so, less hulu and all those classic skiing songs against she classical, i'm just a more styling class. there was no. what about the big issue of fans who have been coming here for years? will the day come when they say now it's just like it used to be, or maybe you don't want that. what was the 2nd? ha, as is obviously it would be difficult to return to how it used to be. so explain come,

you can't turn back the clock for say that of, but i really hope that the boost and quality that we plan out. so feeling will cause guests and fans of ish calculated to feel that it's even better than it used to be. is this notion of the for you? ah, in fact, it could be very simple. just enjoy nature without any trouts. for example, on a snow shoe hike. okay, lucas, him. let's put our snowshoes on. i'm an armoire, like this. yelp. a. yeah, exactly. you put the left one on 1st and tighten it. one size fits all. i know i talked they said yes if they fit every one day that i know with a snow shoe, ike is especially beautiful if it's snowed heavily in the days before. you can

really slow down and relax. ah, what's ros? it deeper? yeah. oh, what's happened to you? oh, you thought 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? her? yes. air. whoa. whoa. country no, you're fine to follow in an anna. don't run it. that won't help. okay. you're gonna 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 right? i've spent years walking this area of with it's always

a sobriety. yeah. you never know it's cons, 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 fancy, worst. lang. oh, oh. first you're a bit unlucky or it's like quicksand. what? where did you end up? oh, i have to do my way out. you know, to where you need to take a step back backwards for her to quit.

and there is, oh, man again of i shall remember. just imagine you were out without any snow shoes on break because our daughter you might think, oh your shoes, come off fyshwick. oh, i didn't even notice my snow. she was gone with me. i'm at all. i'm a naughty. how it is, i underestimated the whole thing. i thought we'd be strolling through the snow, but every step of the struggle do people have to be fit for this is ricky fitz antibiotic. yes they do is an 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 there's also the risk of avalanche, the song again, but 2 or you go into a valley and have the slope towering over you had on that. and then it suddenly all comes down on you and it's dangerous and convivial of in sure, you have to be able to gauge how great the risk of an avalanche is a silly riser. i'd only continue if i was sure of a need and also ah, at the end of my tour, robert wants to take me to a good vantage point, but of course it will take some effort to get there. ah

ah, it's 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 lost us his life long of no, it's only starting up slowly on most. it's bound to take a few years before it gets back to normal. common item of massage, most people aren't confident enough to come here yet. but what could happen out here in the fresh air was mighty mite. 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 bars the i did, yes, there the problem. but even there, if you keep your distance and i don't think it's a problem to play infinity with those based on your experience, how do you think this will develop over the next few years? how does that? i think the numbers will gradually increase. but at the opry, ski won't ever be like it was. everything will take time. but i don't think that

will return shakes him out of the views. the same food has mixed the view. is the same with or without coven? i know that me. now i want to know how does api sky work an issue with the pandemic. with my vaccination certificates, i can't get in no problem. i've chosen one of the class here at pre ski 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, what has been a man? what do you think makes ap risky? so special opposition operate ski is what we had before. the pandemic double. but because of covey done, we can have the loud parties, like we used to use images allowed. people aren't allowed to dance. if he's done some in john, we have to make sure they all stay seated. 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. if you did a stack of it on for those youngsters, do you think that the bible come back? i'm convinced of it. it's just a matter of time. yeah. but how soon? 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. one tip at the end of my trip ish, gill offers night sled twice a week. the slope is regrouped after the day of skiing, so that you can enjoy the mountain air and down hill fun even if you don't ski from here, it's 7 kilometers downhill. i'm excited. ah, ah, ah ah,

ah. mm. 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 here in school, especially those travelers who want to get moving in winter in the snow on the slopes on the to bark and run. well, 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. ah, ah, ah, ah, ah ah, ah,

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