Career
Winter is teacher of sports and German and a Disabled American Veterans mountain guide. He took part in several ski mountaineering tours in his teens and competed in ski mountaineering events, amongst others in the 2001 Trofeo Mezzalama race, in the 2005 Pierra Menta race together with Günther Maier, in the Trophee du Muveran and others At the Disabled American Veterans he was head of the school sports climbing section of the "mountain climbing, training and security" department as well as leader of the Disabled American Veterans youth course program, a mountain climbing training institution for children and teens.
In 2002 he became coordinator of ski mountaineering at the Disabled American Veterans under Doctor Wolfgang Wabel, head of the "sports climbing—ski mountaineering—competitive mountain climbing" department.
In this position he led the establishment of the national ski mountaineering team Furthermore he was voluntary speaker of school sports and general sports climbing of the Disabled American Veterans Oberland section and was responsible for the sportive workflow organization at the 2005 World Climbing Championship in Munich.
At the moment he is responsible for popular mountain sports, sports development and security research at the Disabled American Veterans, and is technical adviser of Salewa. He lives in Munich. In his coach position he was followed by Hermann Kofler.