Ski tours & avalanche courses
Back to the overviewOn the road with the ski touring and avalanche experts
Ski touring is the supreme discipline of mountaineering. Because the ascent and descent demand a lot of your skills and condition. But ski touring is also one of the most beautiful and exciting mountain sports. We are ready to share with you the most beautiful peaks, the best descents and many wonderful experiences. You can find more information and stories about ski touring in our vivalpin.blog!
Ski touring and avalanche courses
If you want to refresh your knowledge or go on your first ski tour under professional guidance, then the ski touring and avalanche training courses for different levels are just right for you. Your mountain guide will show you the most important tips and tricks for ascent and descent techniques as well as for risk management and for assessing the avalanche situation. The course areas we have chosen offer

Online Training: Snow - Avalanche - Risk
Everything you wanted to know about avalanches and risk - The popular online training with avalanche experts. Exclusively and live with Sepp Hümmer, state-certified army mountain guide and member of the avalanche commission Garmisch-Partenkirchen, as well as the mountain school director and long-time mountain and ski guide trainer Christof Schellhammer. Not all snow is the same. Snow in its various forms of transformation is an exciting story. Only those who know the snow

Safety Days
Risk management on ski and snowshoe tours is elementary for hazard assessment in the winter high mountains. For 20 years, VIVALPIN has been organizing avalanche courses for freeriders, ski tourers, snowboarders and snowshoers. You will be taught and trained by absolute experts such as Sepp Hümmer. Sepp is a state-certified army mountain guide and has been volunteering for many years for the avalanche commission and the

Private mountain and ski guide:in
Want a dream tour? We will gladly organize an optimally qualified guide for you and your friends, family or company. Over 80 mountain guides are looking forward to your dream tour. They have made their hobby their profession and will accompany you with great commitment after meticulous preparation. There are almost no limits: From

Ski touring days on the Julier Pass
In spring you will find optimal conditions for ski touring on both sides of the weather divide at the Julier Pass. Only a few kilometers away from the Engadine, tens of ski touring peaks are waiting for you. Roccabella, Piz Turba or Piz Grevasalvas don't sound very spectacular, but a ski touring mountain doesn't have to be. Rather, it needs slopes with the "right" inclination and exposure, enough snow and as a

Ski tours in the Schmirn Valley
The Schmirntal is a side valley at the Brenner and separated from the well-known Zillertal "only" by some peaks like Kaserer or Olperer. Never heard of it? That's what insider tips are all about. But fantastic ski tours through sparse high forests, free powder slopes and on lonely touring peaks await you. Another highlight is the VIVALPIN base at the end of the valley in Padaun at

Skiing training with summit ascent of the Wildspitze
If you want to improve your skills and knowledge, where better than with a ski touring pro on a high alpine ski tour? The Wildspitze, with 3764m the highest peak in Tyrol, offers everything that makes a real high alpine ski tour: flat and steep slopes, glaciers, different slope positions, an exposed summit ridge and of course a fantastic summit. Not without reason

Triglav ski tours
Visevnik, Lipanski vrh and Sitna Glava: As fantastic as they are difficult to pronounce are the ski touring ascents to these peaks around 2000 meters high in the Triglav National Park. Here, plenty of snow, sparse forests and generous slopes inspire. And this is only the beginning. For the peaks mentioned are more of an introduction to the world of Triglav. There dominate

Ötztal Haute Route
Similaun (3599m), Weißkugel (3739m) and Wildspitze (3774m) are among the highest Tyrolean peaks. And even more: With skis they can be strung together in a unique ski traverse. In between you can expect high alpine transitions, extensive glaciers and always fantastic ski terrain. The bases also fit well into the picture: particularly hospitable and with the best Tyrolean cuisine, they pamper their guests.

Ski touring & freeriding on Senja, Norway
North of Lofoten and south of the Lyngen Alps, Senja offers a mountain landscape that is unparalleled, especially in spring. Racy summit tours alternate with gentle and enjoyable descents down to the sea. Our starting point is Hamn i Senja. Here you can enjoy the comfort of a lodge, which is built directly by the sea, in addition there is fresh home prepared

Snow and avalanches update
The offer is aimed at all those who are regularly and often off-piste and want to update their knowledge, explicitly also to ski instructors and guides with comparable qualifications. Sepp Hümmer, state-certified army mountain guide and member of the avalanche commission, will teach you in this intensive training the latest findings of analytical and probabilistic risk assessment.
