Alpinschule Oberstdorf is a tour operator that has been operating in the entire Alpine region from Bavaria in the most mountainous part of the Allgäu since 1981. The offer includes both educational activities (ice mountaineering courses, rock climbing, ski mountaineering) and guided summer excursions, via ferrata, climbing tours and multi-day tours at high altitude and winter excursions with snowshoes or skis.

For accompanying activities, the staff is qualified as a mountain and ski guide, hiking guide and many guides have additional training for the mountain rescue service, as paramedics or as army mountain guides.

Andreas Tauser is the director of the Oberstdorf Alpine School and has extensive experience as a mountain guide, in skiing and in the mountain rescue service. Andreas’s great-uncle was Leo Köcheler, a historic mountain guide from Bavaria in the late 1800s.