Freeride skiing and mountain climbing take a combination of courage, skill and determination. Doing so at a world level, takes a little more. NOEL MURPHY reports on two Torquay sisters who have these attributes in spades…
IT’S fair to say Tamara and Lorraine Huber are high achievers with good heads for heights.
There’s no room for vertigo in their world – not when you’re climbing the highest mountains in Europe or taking out some of the most prestigious free skiing tournaments in the world.
Mont Blanc, Grand Paradiso, Dent Blanche, Red Bull contests and extreme skiing across Austria, Switzerland and France take courage as much as skill. They also demand determination, a ridiculous amount of hard work and planning.
For these two sisters, who call both Australia and Austria home, the rarefied atmosphere of snow, ice and rocks paired with elite athleticism is all in a day’s work.
They grew up as youngsters in the mountain village of Lech am Arlberg before moving to Torquay where they lived for the best part of a decade. They were schooled at Newtown’s Sacred Heart College and still return to the Geelong region every chance they get to catch up with old and life-long mates.
But the mountains maintain a professional and spiritual hold on the pair which has seen them rise to the top of their sport.
Read on about how sisters Tamara and Lorraine Huber take on the toughest peaks in the world on page 35 of GC’s autumn edition.
