There is a herdsman though looking after the cows, there is a mountain inn, and a handful of huts are rented to tourists like us. So it is not really lonely. The tourists live in the more stable huts that originally were built as accomodation for the dairy people. Many of the huts are more than 200 years old. The alp is accessible over a gravel road which limits the number of people who come up there and probably selects for a certain ruggedness.
As you can see in he following pictures, the landscape and the views are spectacular. I have never been in the Alps before in summer and was blown away.
Here is a google Earth file with the locations on the mountain.