The Dachstein - always a place of longing for alpinists - is not "just" a mountain, but with its 2,995 metres a true mountain personality in the Austrian Alps. In 1969, the Dachstein glacier was opened up to tourists for the first time with the Dachstein Südwandbahn cable car. In just a few weeks, the reopening of the completely renovated and modernised mountain station on 24 May marks the start of a new era of high enjoyment on the Dachstein Glacier: