Will walk for cheese

Like all good stories, this one starts with cheese. Three 25kg wheels of the stuff to be exact — the prize awarded to Austrian architects Andreas Cukrowicz and Anton Nachbaur-Sturm for the winning design of the chapel in which we’re standing.

Modest and unassuming, the tiny building has room for just three pews and an altar, completely clad and lined in silver fir — the same trees we floated over during our cable-car ride up from Andelsbuch.

*Read the full story online at escape.com.au or on the PDF here