Mountain tour to the best coffee in the world?

With a soft click, it gets light. The cone of light from the headlamp dances across the ground. It's still dark, but you can already tell that the day is not far off. We are standing at the Widdersteinhütte at an altitude of 2,000 metres. It's fresh in the morning. The hiking trail winds its way gently uphill across the meadow in front of us. Just right to slowly get going this early in the morning. Our plan: We want to be on the Widderstein summit just Our little group of three marches along in silence. Everyone is lost in thought. Can we make it? Are we early enough? We have calculated a good 1.5 hours for the ascent from the hut to the summit. Yesterday evening, we had already managed the 40-minute ascent from the Hochtannberg Pass to the hut, enjoyed a cosy snack on the terrace and then spent the night.
An app calculated the exact time of sunrise at the summit. Now we still have 500 metres of altitude ahead of us. There's not much time for breaks. The rocky contours of the mighty mountain slowly emerge at dawn. It's hard to imagine getting up through the rugged terrain without climbing equipment. But that's exactly why we had decided on this alpine hike. And indeed: the path continues to climb upwards on easy terrain.

We soon find ourselves in rocky terrain and it becomes steeper and more challenging. It's actually wonderful, because you realise how quickly you gain height and after a short time you are high above the valley. If you turn round briefly, spectacular views open up. But now time is pressing.

Die letzten Meter zum Gipfel sind genau, wie wir sie uns vorgestellt haben: Die Anstrengung, der Schweiß auf der Stirn, die schweren Beine - Der Ausblick. Und jetzt werden wir belohnt von den ersten wärmenden The last few metres to the summit are exactly as we imagined: The effort, the sweat on our foreheads, the heavy legs - the view. And now we are rewarded by the first warming rays of sunshine on our faces. We've done it! We've reached the summit. Alone. No one else is up here this early.
Complete silence to wake up the day - time for a fresh espresso.