The booklets are richly illustrated, landscape-format paperbacks that present the doctrine of the Alpine Association in a precise and understandable way. "Alpine tours are the supreme discipline of mountaineering" (quote from the ÖAV), which is why the Hochtouren booklet is probably more extensive than the others and about twice as thick as the Skitouren booklet, for example. The latter deals almost exclusively with ski touring-specific topics - essentially with the Stop or Go method and the procedure in the event of an avalanche emergency. Hochouren, on the other hand, also deals with more general topics that are not only relevant for the glaciated high mountains.
The design of all booklets is uniform. Superordinate chapters are divided into various sub-chapters. Thanks to the many pictures and vivid graphics, you don't feel overwhelmed by too much text and the big-nosed people by illustrator Sojer, familiar from other AV publications, liven things up. Each booklet comes with a kind of flyer in credit card format, which summarizes the most important content in bullet points.
