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Your guide to exploring the mountains of the Austrian Alps, Italian Dolomites and beyond! Join us on our adventurous life in the mountains near Innsbruck.

Adventures in the Austrian Alps, Italian Dolomites and beyond!

I grew up believing you followed the typical path in life – study, get a job, buy a house and settle down. But when I was on that path, I wasn’t happy at all.

Giving up a career in the UK to move to the Alps was a huge risk, but it lead to an intentionally created life around the things I cherish the most – freedom, nature and adventure.

On this blog, we aim to share our favourite adventures around our home in the Tirol region of the Austrian Alps, and the neighbouring region of the Dolomites.

It’s also full of resources to help you build freedom and adventure into your own lifestyle as well as tips and tricks for planning your own adventures.

Looking for the next adventure?

Bucket List Adventures

Top Adventures across the Alps & Further Afield

Who We Are

The Ekkelbooms

We’re Cat & Menno. Cat grew up in the UK, while Menno grew up in the Netherlands. But our love of the mountains brought us both to the Alps, and that’s where we met, fell in love, and got married.

We now call Tirol our home, and while Cat is a multi-award-winning elopement photographer and local hiking guide, Menno works as an architect. However, for both of us, one thing is much more important than working. And that’s having time to go on adventures together.