Some famous skiers from these regions include Anita Wachter, Egon Zimmermann, Gerhard Nenning, Mario Reiter, Toni Innauer and Hannes Schneider.

I note that the Vorarlberg device is described as “das Montfortische Banner", which I presume means that it is a banner version of Montfort arms. There are a number of Montfort families, but Rietstap has Montfort (Counts) as bearing Argent a gonfannon gules with gold annelets (the suspending rings). The apparent blazon for arms giving rise to the gonfannon illustrated on the Vorarlberg shield would be Gules a bar gemel sable, which is not ascribed to any of the Montforts by Rietstap.

The straightforward English blazon for the Vorarlberg arms would be “Argent a gonfannon Montfort", since that is how the charge is described in German. If one wanted to go the extra league one could say “Argent a gonfannon gules bearing a bar genel sable repeated on the tails fringed of the same".