Two hikers — a woman in a wide-brimmed hat and a man in shirtsleeves and tie — pick their way along a narrow wooden plank walkway bolted to the sheer rock face of the Tormäuer gorge, the churning Ötscherbach river foaming white far below them, dense Austrian spruce forest rising overhead in this wonderfully atmospheric real-photo postcard from Lower Austria's Ötscher massif region. The Tormäuer (literally "gate walls") is a dramatic river gorge near Gaming in the Mostviertel, a popular destination for Viennese day-trippers since the late 19th century — its vertiginous plank paths and rope-railed walkways offering thrills to genteel Edwardian and interwar hikers in formal dress. Sent in September 1926 from an outdoor excursion and addressed to Fräulein Amy in Vienna XIV, Felberstrasse, the card carries a purple oval advertising stamp for "Schmelzer's Gasthaus" in Vienna I, Fleischmarkt 20 — a lively detail suggesting the sender may have been promoting a favourite restaurant. Published by P. Ledermann, Wien I, Fleischmarkt. An 8-Groschen Austrian stamp (green) is affixed and cancelled at Kleinzell.