Grossglockner High Alpine Road

The Grossglockner road screws up 44 km of hairpins to 2,504 m, opening out under the face of Austria's highest peak. We draw it from real map data, matched to the road itself. The preview on screen is the finished poster, and it ships straight away.

Make it yours: 17 art styles, 19 colourways and your own title, with the poster redrawing live as you pick.

Giclée-printed at 300 dpi on 200 gsm matte art paper. Framed posters come in black, white or natural timber, ready to hang.

The preview is the finished poster. What you approve on screen is exactly what we print, with no proof to wait on.

The route

Engineer Franz Wallack laid out the road in 1930, and crews finished it in five years, opening the finished route in August 1935 as a Depression-era project meant to put people to work. Thirty six hairpins carry the road up to the Hochtor pass at 2,504 m, in sight of the Grossglockner itself, Austria's highest peak at 3,798 m, first climbed in 1800.

From a viewpoint near the top, the road looks down on the Pasterze, the country's longest glacier, which has been retreating for decades and losing several metres of ice a year as the climate warms. The road that once took workers five years to blast into the mountain now carries drivers past that same retreat in a single afternoon, most of them barely slowing down to look.

Made for someone who drove it. Or for your own wall, because you did.

Related routes: Amalfi Coast, Atlantic Ocean Road and Causeway Coastal Route.

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