Snow-capped peaks of the Niedere Tauern loom over the idyllic summer resort village of Schladming at 738 metres elevation in Styria, Austria — a tranquil black-and-white panorama photographed from the Ramsauerstrasse that feels worlds away from the war clouds gathering in April 1914. Mailed just months before the outbreak of World War I, this card carries a rubber-stamped alpine lodge cancellation from Stoder Zinken at 2,047 metres, Hörstig-Alpenheim, Post Gröbming, Ennstal — an evocative trace of Edwardian mountain tourism at its peak. The sender, writing to Familie Auguste in Wieselburg on the Erlauf, sends greetings "from a lovely alpine place" signed by Willy and companions. A 5 Heller Franz Joseph stamp completes the Austro-Hungarian postal picture.