„Bischt a Tiroler, bischt a Mensch“. This saying is determined by pure national pride and rightly: People in Innsbruck can’t be intimidated by anybody: neither by Napoleon, by the mountains nor by a few atoms.
Coming from the lowlands, the imposing mountains with their raw and superior beauty might seem like something that needs to get used to. In order not to get crushed by the mountains, Tyroleans achieve high goals: Literary, „Aufi muaß I” (which basically means: I have to get up there!) is their motto, that says it all. They always have to go up to something – the next summit or the ski jump of Bergisel in the middle of the city. Whilst millions of tourists annually try to slide down the slopes without any injuries and are highly proud of themselves after safely returning back to the valleystation – the locals go biking and hiking on over 2000 meter high mountains or clean their spikes after ice-climbing.
Tyrol is unbeatable and imperturbable. 2004 the university of Innsbruck astonished scientists all around the world with the first performed teleportation of atoms. 30 years afore Douglas Adams observed the stars lying in the grass – the outcome was The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Innsbruck travels with speed of light but sticks with its roots, fights stubbornly with hayforks and never doubts in its beliefs. In the „Holly country” everything stays differently.
