Watching wildlife
With Hans-Peter, you have a good chance of spotting at least one of the Big 5 through your binoculars.
Guests at the Wanderhotel Gassner are wild about nature documentaries – but only the real thing, please. When wild watching in the Hohe Tauern National Park, the largest protected area in Central Europe, the mountain world becomes an open-air stage. Hans-Peter Gassner, host, passionate hunter and nature lover, accompanies you on his wilderness expedition, which starts in the evening at his own hunting lodge in the Obersulzbachtal valley.
High up on flowering alpine meadows and rugged cliffs, between rocks, mountain pines and blue skies, they live – the animal inhabitants of the Alps. The big goal: to spot one of the legendary Big 5 of the Alps through your binoculars – ibex, marmot, golden eagle, bearded vulture or chamois.
If you want to spot one of these shy animals, you need calm, keen senses and patience.
‘Warning calls from birds or marmots often reveal the presence of another animal nearby,’ says Hans-Peter. ‘You have to listen carefully.’ And that's when something wonderful happens: you begin to really hear nature – the splashing of water, the rustling of fir trees, the buzzing of bees or your own breathing. When observing animals, you immerse yourself deeply in the world of the mountains – and learn to see with open eyes and ears.
Tracks, footprints, feathers or finely branched mosses tell their own story. Whether you actually encounter one of the Big 5 in the end is almost irrelevant.
Gassner
goes wild
Will you come along?
Get to know the hotel's own hunting grounds, observe chamois, deer, roe deer and marmots, enjoy a hearty Wildara snack at the Berndlalm and round off the evening in style – how does that sound to you?
Our wildlife watching dates for 2026 have not yet been finalised.
