Ötzi

Ötzi the Gletshermummie, Ötzi the Iceman and Tisenjoch are the names we gave the man that walked in the Alps 5,300 years ago. Thanks to the Ötzi museum in Bozen/Bolzano, Italy, I had the opportunity to reconstruct Ötzi’s shoes. For making the shoes I used a flint knife, for both shoes I mostly used one knife...

In 1991, the sensational discovery of a male mummy, thawing from the ice, was made on the Tisenjoch in the Ötztal Alps, near the Austrian-Italian border. The deceased man lived about 5300 years ago at the end of the Neolithic Age and is commonly known as Ötzi in German-speaking countries. The site also contained many well-preserved accompanying items and equipment...