Sisi's unknown side: book shows the Empress as an early alpinist. Schmidham author Sandra Freudenberg came across the Empress’s love of the mountains in the diaries of ladies-in-waiting and daughters.
Among other things, Empress Sisi undertook a private pilgrimage up to the Kircherl am Riederstein at an altitude of 1,207 meters. She spent the night in one or two huts high above Lake Tegernsee in the mountains.