This single tool suggests that Ötzi was capable of maintaining and making his own stone tools on the move.

A dagger with a flint blade in an ash-wood handle.

Two birch-bark containers for transporting food and liquids.

Various tools made of bone and antler.

A fragment of a mesh made from tree fibers, possibly a small backpack or carrying net.

This was a man who was not traveling light.

He was carrying a full toolkit for survival in the Alpine environment: tools for making fire, for making and maintaining weapons, for cutting, for carrying water and food.

He was not a casual traveler passing through.