Tyrol: the best insider-tips on and off the slopes

The sky over the Zillertal is wide. And yet for Armin Fankhauser, it is within reach. It hangs on special thin cords under a 26 square metre piece of plastic high above the 2095 metre high Penken. "For me, paragliding means passion and ultimate freedom," says Fankhauser. "The step into the air is very special," is how he describes his hobby, which he has been pursuing since the 1990s and has now turned into a second profession.