Monday, July 18, 2005

Telegraph | News | Now you can walk in footsteps of 5,000-year-old Iceman - wearing his boots

Telegraph | News | Now you can walk in footsteps of 5,000-year-old Iceman - wearing his boots: "Now you can walk in footsteps of 5,000-year-old Iceman - wearing his boots
By Katka Krosnar in Prague
(Filed: 17/07/2005)

More than 5,000 years ago, Oetzi the Iceman was bestriding the Alps, a hunter covering many miles on foot as he stalked his prey.

Now replicas of his distinctive mountain boots, made of calf, bear and deer leather, are to be sold to modern-day mountain climbers after a prototype pair won rave reviews."

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