Learn To Skate Outside an educational entity around all things ice skating on wild ice, and a lover of all forms of skating! The founder of Learn To Skate Outside, Laura Kottlowski, is a Colorado, USA based human-powered high altitude and outdoor wild ice skating expert, athlete, instructor, pioneer and historian. She spends 200+hours annually on outdoor ice of varying strengths, types, altitude and locations around the world. She is the first known person to skate on the highest lake in the U.S. (Pacific Tarn 13,420’) and first to skate on Gokyo Lakes #2 & #3 in the Khumbu, Nepal (~15,200 & ~15,485’ respectively). Laura has been skating for 31years. She is a U.S. Figure Skating gold medalist, Learn To Skate U.S.A. instructor (the governing body for instructors of figure skating, hockey, and speed skating), skating coach with the Professional Skaters Association (the official continuing education and accreditation association for ice skating professionals) and has been teaching ice skating for the past 20 years. She enjoys sharing her passion for wild ice on social media and uses her platforms to educate and inspire outdoor skaters and enthusiasts around the world. She’s frequently featured in international media such as a feature story on ABC Nightline (Dec. 2020), she’s been on the cover of The Professional Skaters magazine multiple times, in SKATING magazine, Red Bull's 'The Red Bulletin', and she was consulted about ice safety in National Geographic’s ‘Explore Wild Skating’ article in December of 2020 to name a few. She is a World Figure Championships Competitor, recognized as a traditional ‘special-figure-skater’ shedding a modern light on the origins of ice skating and art on ice. She is currently working with Sherpa in the Khumbu (Everest region) to bring ice skating to the high alpine in Nepal. Together with the locals and Nepal Tourism she helped plan and co-host the worlds highest figure skating show and ice hockey match on February 14th, 2020 bringing National and Olympic champion skaters with her.
