In reply to CathS:
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> I hope you're ignoring all the petty gripes about the grammar... Don't people have anything better to do?
Spelling not grammar, actually, and yes, considering the average on this forum folk should keep quiet and enjoy a free article.
I thought it was quite good. The perspective is rather "BMG" but that's no surprise and maybe appropriate for the audience.
It fails to note that the place where ski touring is probably more popular than anywhere else in the world is Innsbruck in Austria and that this area, extending across the Alps into northern (German speaking) Italy, is more or less perfect for touring, especially for the valley based approach that the article (rightly) proposes for learning (and pleasure) purposes.
Perhaps the author also fails to warn that ski touring at anything above baby level is a very demanding sport requiring years of technical learning and considerable physical stamina, not to mention that it involves serious levels of risk (typically much more than folk realize). Around my area (Dolomites), for example, very few people die on icefalls while ski touring deaths are more or less weekly.