Allan Hartley
BiographyA engineer by profession, Allan Hartley has spent the majority of his working life overseas engaged on major construction projects. However throughout this time he has maintained his close links with Austria, which he discovered totally by accident in the early 1970s in respite from atrocious weather conditions in the higher mountains of the western Alps.
He maintains that Austria and the Dolomites of neighbouring Italy remain one of mountaineering's best kept secrets with their heady mix of superb scenery, good huts and first-class food, and are areas better suited to the average mountaineer than the higher mountains to the west.
In addition to Austria, Allan has climbed extensively throughout the Alps, together with East Africa and the Greater Ranges in Nepal and Pakistan, and lesser known Zagros mountains of Iran and, more recently, the Hajr mountains of the Arabian peninsula. Not surprisingly, the author is a long-term member of the Austrian Alpine Club.
When not abroad, the author's home is on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales.
Website: http://www.allanhartley.co.uk
Titles by Allan Hartley
Trekking in Austria's Hohe Tauern
A guide to trekking in the Hohe Tauern in Austria’s Eastern Alps, a World Conservation Area, through Tirol, Salzburg and Karnten provinces. Describes four hut-to-hut treks, of different levels of difficulty, in the Gross Glockner, Reichen and Venediger mountain groups, and a fifth tour of the whole region and includes a comprehensive hut directory. Read and see more…£15.00
Trekking in the Zillertal Alps
Guidebook to trekking the Zillertal Rucksack Route, which traverses the very best of the range located in the Austrian Tyrol spanning the Italy / Austria border. It links together eight huts along good tracks without having to cross glaciers, providing a continuous tour of around ten days. With opportunities to climb adjacent peaks. Read and see more…£10.00
Trekking in the Stubai Alps
This guidebook describes the Stubai Rucksack Route and the Stubai Glacier Tour, which take the walker into the heart of the Stubai Alps in the Austrian Tyrol. With its shapely peaks, good paths and welcoming huts, the Stubai is an ideal venue for a first Alpine season. Read and see more…£10.00
