Carried 9.8 million guests
But to enjoy the view, the 43-metre-high special crane was not laboriously carted up the Styrian Hymnenberg: on Wednesday, after weeks of preparation, the starting gun was fired for the major renovation of the mountain station on the Dachstein. “In the 54 years since it was built, 9.8 million guests have been transported up the mountain. Now the building is, to put it stylistically, ‘zammgfahrn’, and it’s time for a renovation,” says Planai Managing Director Georg Bliem.