Krimml Krimml Krimml is a municipality in Zell am See District, in the federal state of Salzburg, Austria, in the Pinzgau region. Krimml is situated on the Salzach river, at the southwestern rim of the upper (western) "Pinzgau" region near the border with Tyrol. It is located about west of the town of Mittersill and from the district capital Zell am See. The settlement's centre area is situated at an elevation of above sea level. In the west, the Gerlos Pass road leads via Wald im Pinzgau into the Tyrolean Zillertal. In the south, the Krimmler Ache Valley ("Krimmler Achental") with
Victoria Falls building of the railway in 1905, though, the falls were seldom visited by other Europeans. Some writers believe that the Portuguese priest Gonçalo da Silveira was the first European to catch sight of the falls back in the sixteenth century. European settlement of the Victoria Falls area started around 1900 in response to the desire of Cecil Rhodes' British South Africa Company for mineral rights and imperial rule north of the Zambezi, and the exploitation of other natural resources such as timber forests north-east of the falls, and ivory and animal skins. Before 1905, the river was crossed above the