Highlights

The biggest goldfinding
With friends he discovered the biggest gold treasure in the Alps. On that occasion they found about 30 kg of gold. They started off from a forgotten map by a Swiss scientist. More

Important discoveries
Click on this link to learn about the different species discovered by Michel Wachtler. More

Michael Wachtler is one of the Europeans leading thinkers, writers and filmmakers. An internationally acclaimed scientist, explorer and conservationist, he has published more than 100 books and scientific papers. His social criticism often turns him into an uncomfortable contemporary witness.

Since his early youth he devoted himself to the goal of entering deeper into the world of stones than anyone else. He succeeded in detecting the biggest gold – and crystal findings of the Alps and furthermore he discovered countless unknown saurians and fossil plants. More

He is considered as a connoisseur of the Dolomites and the whole Alps-region. Numberless of his books and films about the genesis, the history and the wars in the Dolomites became standard works. He is founder of DoloMythos, the Natural Heritage of Humanity Museum in Innichen (South Tyrol). More

As a field researcher he has discovered and named more than eighty new species of plants and dinosaurs. In 1999 he succeeded in finding the ancestor of snakes and lizards. In his honour Prof. Silvio Renesto named it “Megachirella wachtleri”. Also a lovely fossil fern took his name: "Wachtleria". More

His will to search for Newlands everywhere in the world led him oftentimes to the so far hidden landscapes of the world.

Michael Wachtler lives in the historical Villa Wachtler in the centre of Innichen (South Tyrol). Around you can find Wachtler specialties, the most beautiful shop of the Dolomites and Wachtler Residence, a comfortable house for enjoying the Dolomites. More