Mike
2008-08-16, 06:40
The new gondola has eight passenger cabins and reaches 4,843m above sea level, accessing the Aba Great Glacier in Sichuan province.
The lift was built by Doppelmayr who began work back in October 2006 but were hampered by bad weather. They eventually completed construction and handed over the lift in late March this year, and the gondola is now open to the public. It can carry 800 passengers per hour and takes 9.4 minutes to make its ascent. There are 36 gondola cabins travelling at six metres per second over the 2399m length and 1,226m vertical.
The top station is 327m higher than the previous record holder, at Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in Yunnan province which has a top station height of 4516m.
The third highest gondola in the world, and the highest at a ski resort, is at Gulmarg in India. Built by French company POMA, its highest terminal is at 3979.5m
The lift was built by Doppelmayr who began work back in October 2006 but were hampered by bad weather. They eventually completed construction and handed over the lift in late March this year, and the gondola is now open to the public. It can carry 800 passengers per hour and takes 9.4 minutes to make its ascent. There are 36 gondola cabins travelling at six metres per second over the 2399m length and 1,226m vertical.
The top station is 327m higher than the previous record holder, at Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in Yunnan province which has a top station height of 4516m.
The third highest gondola in the world, and the highest at a ski resort, is at Gulmarg in India. Built by French company POMA, its highest terminal is at 3979.5m