The most beautiful place - For Elise Hirsig, an adventurous journey to the Hasliberg began at the beginning of the 20th century. With enough money from her beloved and very loving father - her mother had died at an early age - she set off for Interlaken. There she had a rowing boat take her across the lake to Brienz. For there was no railroad on the right side of the lake yet and the road was natural.

In Brienz, Elise was impressed by the fact that the poets Goethe, Byron and Uhland had already been guests there and had discovered this beautiful place for themselves. From Brienz, the journey continued by carriage to Meiringen, and from there a donkey finally carried her up the Hasliberg. Arriving at the top, where today the Gletscherblick stands, she was so overwhelmed by the mountain panorama that she decided to build a "guesthouse" in this "most beautiful place in the world".

Thus, as early as 1906, the Pension Gletscherblick was built in their adopted home. And everything started with a bang: Since the house had to be built on rocks, there was first explosive to be procured in order to expose the stony building ground. To get the dynamite, Elise Hirsig hiked for hours to Lungern, since the Hasliberg road was not completed until 1907. On the even more arduous way back, she then carried the explosives she had procured there in a backpack to the Gletscherblick construction site with non-explosive composure.