Extreme chimney sweeping

How fire protection works high up in the mountains!

The two chimney sweeps Wolfgang and Pius at work in the high mountains.(Bild: Hannes Wallner)

With a broom and vacuum cleaner into the high mountains: The "Bergkrone" accompanied Wolfgang Forstlechner from East Tyrol, who sweeps the chimneys of Austria's highest mountain huts as a chimney sweep. 

"The chimney sweep is here!" - Early summer is a particularly stressful time for Wolfgang Forstlechner, as the physically fit master chimney sweep from Matrei in East Tyrol has to climb high up into the mountains every day.