The dream of flying has always dominated mankind.

Starting with Daedalus, a famous Greek builder who built wings for himself and his son Icarus out of feathers and wax in order to escape from the prison of King Minos. Icarus wanted to fly higher. In doing so, he came too close to the sun, the wax melted and he crashed. Leonardo da Vinci also had the urge to overcome earthboundness with his design of a flying machine, the Montgolfier brothers with the first hot air balloon, Count von Zeppelin with the steerable airship or Otto Lilienthal, who achieved the breakthrough to mastering gliding flight with his biplane. Nowadays, anyone can see the most beautiful places and regions from a bird's eye view. Especially in the Tyrolean Kaiserwinkl, passionate paragliders and hang gliders get their money's worth.

The lime-white walls of the massif tower up into the Kaiserwinkl-blue sky and end at the very top in a wild jaggedness that knows neither measure nor order: the Wilder Kaiser. Warm air rises from its mountain slopes in summer, the thermals that paragliders need to practice their sport. Kössen in the Kaiserwinkl is a paradise for paragliders and hang gliders. Every summer, numerous fans of this sport come here because of the good thermals. Paragliding and hang gliding competitions also take place every year on the Unterberghorn in Kössen. If you would like to become the king of the skies yourself, you can book a tandem flight with an experienced flight instructor at the Kössen flight school. Beginners' courses start every week. If you would like to watch the paragliders from the safety of the ground, you can watch the launch preparations and take-off right next to the Bärenhütte at the Hochkössen mountain station. In good weather, the colorful gliders shine in all colors in the sky and offer a dreamlike sight against the backdrop of the mighty Wild "Koasa".