The Austrians show the world how a mountaintop overlook is done.
By Catherine Strawn
Nearly two miles above sea level in Tyrol, Austria, lies a place no acrophobe should visit: Top of Tyrol, a summit observation platform completed last fall that juts out from Mount Isidor’s peak, high above the Stubai Glacier. It’s a quick cable car ride up to 10,000 feet and then a 10-minute hike to this metal overhang, giving visitors something to do during the four months they can’t ski the glacier’s 68 miles of slopes. The platform offers stunning, unobstructed 360-degree panorama of the Stubai, Chalk, and Limestone Alps; the Zill Valley; and the Dolomites. But there’s more than the view: Austria’s highest-elevation restaurant, Jochdohle, awaits nearby ($29; stubaier-gletscher.com).
This article originally appeared in the April 2009 issue of Men’s Journal.
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April 19th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Hey Catherine, you can actually ski year round on the Stubai Glacier, I live in Innsbruck just down the valley and ski there very often out of season. I was up on the platform in October and yes the views are spectacular. Servus aus Tirol.
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