This winter semester, the Chair of Sports Equipment and Sports Materials at the Technical University of Munich once again took 16 students to the Zugspitze for three days as part of the “Sports Technology Methods Seminar” course. They spent the night at the Schneefernerhaus research station at an altitude of around 2650m below the Zugspitze summit. In preparation for this excursion, various research questions on the subject of outdoor sports, limited in scope, were worked out together and made methodically accessible. Prototypes of sports equipment and measuring devices can be used or new products on the sporting goods market can be evaluated in scientifically oriented practical tests in a high alpine environment. This semester, the students used mobile spiroergometry to analyze whether tackling a steep or a flat (but longer) ascent with the same altitude meters in the same running time is more energy-efficient. The effectiveness of the Ski-Mojo system, an exoskeleton for skiers, was also tested using electromyography (muscle activity measurement). Other topics included the analysis of the effect of additional masses on the ski tip on skiing behavior, as well as motion detection during skiing with stationary and swiveling cameras.