Spray and thunder fill the frame as the Unterer Krimmler Wasserfall — the lower tier of Europe's highest waterfall cascade — roars over ancient granite in the Hohe Tauern, Salzburg. Four tiny figures clamber across the boulder field below, dwarfed by the white torrent, while a lone hiker strides dramatically along the ridge crest, silhouetted against the mist in a pose of Romantic-era heroism that the photographer clearly composed with care. The detail crop (_03) magnifies that lone figure: a near-naked man, hiking pole raised, caught mid-stride against the spray — an extraordinary, almost cinematic image. Published by Bergwelt Verlag (C. Jutier, Salzburg), this silver-gelatin RPPC circulated in the early Austrian Second Republic era, sent from Zell am See to Karl in Kaltenleutgeben near Vienna.