High Speed Cable Car For Monterosa
High Speed Cable Car For Monterosa
Published : 25-Aug-2009 06:57
New High Speed, High Altitude Cable Car For MonterosaThe new lift will link Passo dei Salati to the Indren Glacier high in the Italian Monterosa ski area.
The Doppelmayr built lift will ascend from 2960m and travel just over 1.5km (just under a mile) in just under five minutes to reach the glacier at 3275m.
The two cabins will travel at up to 10 metres per second and carry up to 60 standing passengers each, a maximum of 740 people per hour with 2 cabins for 60 standing people each.
Only one support tower is required between the two stations and the operators are looking at using a photovoltaic solar energy source to partly or fully power the lift, although that has not been confirmed yet.
Unusually in the modern era, the lift will follow a new route, never traced before by a lift and will cross the border from the Aosta Valley to the Piedmont side of the skiing area.
"Passo dei Salati, the historical watershed between Aosta Valley and Piedmont, and the 'flagship' of the Monterosa Ski skiing area for its inter-regional skis-on link, will become the launch pad towards the Gotha of the free ride tracks in Monte Rosa." said a MonteRosa SpA company spokesman.
Construction of the new lift has taken three years, with construction work begun in June 2006. It has been a complex project, in part because of the extreme conditions at this altitude leading to sudden changes in the weather at all times of year.
The new lift has cost more than 17 million Euros to construct, and with a further 15 million Euros spend on a funicular railway down the valley, it looks like MonteRosa is the biggest spender in Europe's mountains for the coming winter.
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