Tourist Office

Ferienregion Tauferer Ahrntal
Steinhaus
Alto Adige (Bolzano) / Südtirol (Bozen)
Italy
I 39030

Telephone: (474) 652081
Email: TAUFERER@AHRNTAL.COM
Website: www.sand-in-taufers.com

Description

Situated at the centre of the Valle Aurina, Luttach and Sand in Taufers are pleasant traditional villages. The main ski area at Speikboden is reached by a short drive although it is possible to ski all the way back, snow cover permitting.

Speikboden ski centre gets its name from a particular kind of flower – the Speik. It grows on the high mountains.
Usually the Speik can be white or blue when it belongs to the primrose family.

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Luttach, Lutago, Campo Tures, Sand in Taufers, Tauferer Ahrntal,, Tauferner, Speikboden, Valle Aurina, Ahrntal, Alps, Italy, Dolomites, Alto Adige, Bolzano, Südtirol, Bozen

During a long day on the slopes of Speikboden resort in Italy, skiing world renowned record addict Oliver Kern set two new world records.

He managed to total 60,874 vertical metres (200,000 feet) skied in one day, and in the process 5,550 (18.210 ft) vertical meters during one hour.

Along with the two world records, by the end of the record day, the 36-year-old German had skied a 5.5 km long run 58 times as well as additional slopes adding up to a total of 361 kilometres (226 miles) skied. Kern also took the 2,887 metre long gondola with a difference in height of 1,022m 58 times as well four additional chair lifts making a total of 520km (325 miles) in the gondola and on the slopes.

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