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powdering under the polar light: Telemark Ralf Neumann out on the Lofoten

Ralf Neumann, photo private

In his "normal" life, he makes sure that others get fit as quickly as possible and back to The boards come to mean it for the world. Ralf Neumann is a sports scientist and works at the Center for Sports and Rehabilitation diagnostics in Rosenheim Bad Endorf and every day with injured athletes, including many skiers. Skiing is his passion. But not with the alpine boards on which he has learned in his childhood training at the ski club in Prien on the wall Kamp. The 43 year-old started 20 years ago with the telemark and since then only with a free heel off the slopes on the road. "To be in the untracked terrain can move freely, to go where others do not move necessarily, that is for me a very special charm. And to be very free movement during telemark reinforced this feeling of great freedom in addition, "says Ralf Neumann. His Tour goals are in line with its motto "where others do not move necessarily" very unusual: the Mount McKinley in Alaska, Peru, the Nevado Ishinka, Nevado Pisco and Cordillera Blanca, and later Mexico with the Pico de Orizaba, where he and friends the steepest has gone downhill.

In Lofoten, Photo: private

Ralf Neumann had then had enough of the most extreme alpine experiences with miserable long ascents. On his next big tour should the shutdown and thus the powder experience in the foreground stand. Together with his friends, the free riders Andi Priel Maier and Stephan Kappl, he eventually broke last winter in the Lofoten Islands in the far north of Norway. What makes this goal? "It's just a very special nature experience up there. By the more or less horizontal course of the sun you can put in the Lofoten two or three hours as sunrise, sunset mood to enjoy the day. It then in the powder down the slopes to leave the fjords, this is simply beautiful hammer 'and has very much Soul. "
again this winter, he is not content with simple trips. Right now he is in Chamonix photos for the magazine Snow on the way and then wants the Haute Route commit to Chamonix to Zermatt classic with a tent. A trip to make in the middle of winter, only very few. Petra Rapp

Event Tip:
"photo and film show: Lofoten. A skiing adventure in the far north of Norway. Powdering under the polar light ", Friday, 11 March, at the Kursaal Park (Chiemgau-Therme) in Bad Endorf, Start Clock 20, Entrance 7 €