What did our highest mountains look like in the days of the first skiers and tourists? Which mountain huts still stand intact today and which ones would we look for in vain? How did women ski in skirts and hats? The first professional and amateur photographers left evidence of this. More than 140 images of the Giant Mountains were selected, edited and supplemented with texts by the photographer and owner of the family collection of old photographs, Pavel Scheufler. The foreword to the book was written by the esthetician and natural science historian Karel Stibral. The publication is not only a valuable testimony of the transformation of our highest mountains, but also a guide on how to read the photographs in order to hear the compelling stories they tell us.