The image here is of the Italian Alpenverein Sud Tyrol AVS, Becher Haus mountain Hut refuge, named after the lump of rock on which it sits. However the huts correct name is Kaiserin Elisabeth Haus, Sisi, The Reluctant Princess, wife of Kaiser Franz Josef, mother of Crown Prinz Rudolf he of Mayerling fame whom shot himself and his lover in the Mayerling woods near Vienna. Elisabeth would also die in tragic circumstances being murdered by the shores of Lake Geneva. The Kaiser would die of old age and fatigue of WWI in 1916.
This set of images is of the Stubai Alps in the Stubaital valley near the resort towns of Fulpmes and Neustift in the Austrian Tyrol not far from the city of Innsbruck as they where in 1968. The image here is of the Italian Alpenverein Sud Tyrol AVS, Becher Haus mountain Hut refuge, named after the lump of rock on which it sits. However the huts correct name is Kaiserin Elisabeth Haus, Sisi, The Reluctant Princess, wife of Kaiser Franz Josef mother of Crown Prinz Rudolf he of Mayrling fame whom shot himself and his lover in the Mayrling woods near Vienna. Elisabeth would also die in tragic circumstances being murdered by the shores of Lake Geneva. The Kaiser would die of old age and fatigue of WWI in 1916. For more information about the Becher Haus and other mountain huts in the Stubai, see my guidebook, Trekking in the Stubai Alps by Allan Hartley published by Cicerone Press UK
Size: 7000px × 6876px
Location: Stubai Alps, Tyrol, Austria
Photo credit: © Allan Hartley / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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