Room with a view: 4,500 feet up and clinging to the foot of a cliff, the mountain guest house built directly into the rock face where you can just get away from it all
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 12:00 GMT, 4 March 2014 | UPDATED: 15:02 GMT, 4 March 2014
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A room with a view off the beaten track? This one is 4,500 feet up and clinging to the foot of a cliff.
The Mountain Guest House in Äscher-Wildkirchli is built directly into the rock face of the Ebenalp mountain in Appenzell, Switzerland.
There are no TVs, just a single toilet and all 40 of the beds are in boarding-school style dormitories but hikers flock throughout the summer for the unrivalled peace and quiet.
Only accessible by a narrow mountainside path, the guest house is more than a century old and so isolated in the winter it only opens May to October.
It's just metres from the Wildkirchli Mountain Chapel where masses during the summer are accompanied by traditional Swiss yodelling.
Claudia and Beny Knechtle-Wyss have opened their home to guests for the last 27 years and in 2012 it was even named 'mountain guest house of the year' by the UNESCO International Council on Monuments and Sites.
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Stunning: The Mountain Guest House is a beautiful, secluded boarding house for climbers that want to enjoy the Swiss Alps +6
Stunning: The Mountain Guest House is a beautiful, secluded boarding house for climbers that want to enjoy the Swiss Alps
Rambling: Ebenalp mountain in Appenzell is a favourite amongst hikers - known for its tough, challenging and beautiful terrain +6
Rambling: Ebenalp mountain in Appenzell is a favourite amongst hikers - known for its tough, challenging and beautiful terrain
Summer holiday: As well as the mountainous views guests enjoy boarding school style dormitories at the century old Swiss house +6
Summer holiday: As well as the mountainous views guests enjoy boarding school style dormitories at the century old Swiss house
Secluded: The house can only be reached by a narrow mountainside path and there is just one single toilet shared amongst 40 guests +6
Secluded: The house can only be reached by a narrow mountainside path and there is just one single toilet shared amongst 40 guests
Room with a view: The Mountain Guest House in Äscher-Wildkirchli was named 'mountain guest house of the year' by the UNESCO International Council on Monuments and Sites +6
Room with a view: The Mountain Guest House in Äscher-Wildkirchli was named 'mountain guest house of the year' by the UNESCO International Council on Monuments and Sites
Dusky: The isolated house is just metres from the Wildkirchli Mountain Chapel where masses during the summer are accompanied by traditional Swiss yodelling +6
Dusky: The isolated house is just metres from the Wildkirchli Mountain Chapel where masses during the summer are accompanied by traditional Swiss yodelling