This is what I love about UA-cam. I get to see and experience things from all around the world because people like you take the time and trouble to share. Very cool.
I know what you mean. I lived in Germany and the UK, and I loved their public transportation. I enjoyed the train travel videos, especially with the cross-channel ferries or the Chunnel. The streetcars of Lisbon videos are fun as well.
at first I freaked out but then got used to it and now wonder if I could actually take a gondola ride some day. Thank you so much for taking us where most of us will never live to see. many, many thanks.
Thank you for uploading this! I've been to Zermatt once, back in the summer of 1999, and unfortunately I didn't have enough money to buy a ticket to get up/down it. Watching this is great as UA-cam allows for everyone to experience this. Uninterrupted simply raw video of what it's like. Thank you.
speaking from an engineers perspective, it must have been a nightmare trying to get all of those cables, concrete, electric cables, power, supporting gantries/ posts up a mountain side without a road to drive up.
I’m so busy marveling at the engineering involved in building such a “ contraption “ in such a remote place that I barely have time to look out the window.
Had to laugh at the billboard, "after the first time, I couldn't stop touching it".....omg.........the garbage bins look like the one in my garage that I use here in IL.....lol. Awesome views and quite a virtual reality ride on a real gondola...
Spectacular video. One of my favourited of all time. I watch a lot of train cab ride videos and it never occured to me to look up aerial cable car rides. This one is great.
Thank you for sharing this experience. Switzerland I have visited a few times. Beautiful country with technical masterpieces! The only thing, it was a very silent ride. :-)
Thank you for this video. It has been change since my last ride/visit in 1972. We drove from Hannover to Bale overnight. Than further from Bale to Brig and than to Zermatt. Walked within Zermatt to the old cable car and drove to Schwarzsee Hotel. When we arrived nothing could be seen due to heavy fog. The next morning sunshine at 2583 metres. Zermatt was below the clouds. Also in our Hotel was the ski national team of switzerland. They left early in the morning for there training on Theodulgletscher. Sadly only the first day was a nice day. The next five days only thunderstormes. We left Schwarzsee a few days earlier. Our Helicopter flight (Air Zermatt) around the Matterhorn was cancelled.
You ain't seen nothin yet.... :-) That is actually a fairly old lift system. (2002). Search for the new 3S ride to the Klein Matterhorn. That's state of the art.
These mountains along with the clouds/sky, cable wire poles and small building in mountains reminds me of a video game called "Descent 3" The car make me feels I was in the ship flying around the mountains and would fly into the building inside the mountains.
In 1965, took cable cars out of Zermatt and then hiked miles along a ridge and then up to Hoenle Hutte at 11,400 ft. I was 23. My USAF roommate's cousin covered most of our expenses.
This is absolutely incredible, I love videos such as this, but as I have a great fear of heights, hard for me to even step up on a two rung ladder. this was excruciatingly nerve wracking, I felt as if I were there riding, but in reality there is no way I could truly ever ride this, I'd be petrified the entire time. As for all of you who spoke about the sign at 18:22, get your minds out of the gutter SMH
@@algrayson8965 I know. The rescue itself is just too dangerous. But if people managed to create a cable car up there, if there was a possibility to come up there without so much danger... some people would use it. And the ones who climb as a matter of principle would just keep climbing. As they climb Zugspitze despite the extant train up there.
6:16 Kinda like coming into the Disney Skyliner's hub terminal, except this gondola is a through-line (whereas Disney's Skyliners all require you to disembark at the hub).
You should see the Merida (Venezuela) cable car. It will bring you high up in the outskirts of the Andes. It is the highest in the world with the last stop at Pico Espejo 4765m above sea level and a length of over 12Km.
Now I wonder... Is this just a tourist ride, or is this really a kind of transport that people use because paving a road or making a railroad is pretty hard (sometimes even impossible) in mountains like these... So in other words, use it to travel between work and home or visit relatives etc. etc. Given the distance (and the number of stops long the way)... I wonder how long is this ride (in km)? Anyway this is a beautiful ride, I like mountains, but since I live in one of the flattest countries on Earth (yes, that would be the Netherlands) I rarely get to see them with my own two eyes, so I guess the internet will have to do. So thanks a lot for sharing this.
This was in off-off-off season. Skiing starts in November, tourists hiking is basically over when snow starts to stay on the ground. Only asian tourists aren't enough to visibly fill the gondolas.
both. If you life up there at the top and have a restaurant, then yes this is one of the ways to transport goods. But its mainly to get skiers and travelers up there
What's the deal with the one ropeway on top of the other one in segment #2? There's even a [disabled?] car on it at 9:36. Never seen anything like this.
Where were they able to get a cable made that long, are they able to splice it together, I noticed that the advertising and name on the cars are in English. Just make sure your life insurance is up to date and your will is in order, how does this thing make any money, all the cars are empty.
@@Peter-pv8xx- Many splices in the cable. The cable isn't subjected to very much wear. It runs in smooth sheaves, everything is greased. They do eventually have to be replaced.
@@LegendaryRadioJock- The cars that are not in use - parked, stored, are definitely stopped. The ones that are off of the cable (past the huge pulley wheel) move slowly around the loop in the station, then are accelerated to the cable speed and then lower onto the cable. There is a grip that squeezes the cable to prevent high wind gusts from causing the car to fall off of the cable. The grip doesn't encircle the cable as it has to go over the sheaves on the towers. A reference is made in one of the comments to a detailed explanatory video.
This is what I love about UA-cam. I get to see and
experience things from all around the world because people like you take the
time and trouble to share. Very cool.
I know what you mean. I lived in Germany and the UK, and I loved their public transportation. I enjoyed the train travel videos, especially with the cross-channel ferries or the Chunnel. The streetcars of Lisbon videos are fun as well.
I agree I love you tube for that. One question why is there so many cars.
at first I freaked out but then got used to it and now wonder if I could actually take a gondola ride some day. Thank you so much for taking us where most of us will never live to see. many, many thanks.
@@wideawake914 very busy
@@georgestaunton6994 Thanks for giving me some ideas to look up. I would not have known otherwise.
Thank you for uploading this! I've been to Zermatt once, back in the summer of 1999, and unfortunately I didn't have enough money to buy a ticket to get up/down it. Watching this is great as UA-cam allows for everyone to experience this.
Uninterrupted simply raw video of what it's like. Thank you.
speaking from an engineers perspective, it must have been a nightmare trying to get all of those cables, concrete, electric cables, power, supporting gantries/ posts up a mountain side without a road to drive up.
helicopter
Foreign labour is cheap
Some of these mountain cableways were built before helicopters were invented.
Everything had to be dragged up the mountains with cables.
That was a ride of a lifetime. Totally awesome. The scenery is beautiful.
18:22
So are we all just gonna ignore this hilarious ad?
LOL!
LOL!
4 weeks later, still touching it...
Legend has it that she's still touching it...
thanks sir xD
THAT WAS AWESOME TOO WATCH.
BEATIFUL COUNTRY TOO.
THANKS 4 SHARING FROM KENTUCKY U.S.A
I’m so busy marveling at the engineering involved in building such a “ contraption “ in such a remote place that I barely have time to look out the window.
The audio from this reminds me of skiing in Vail with my parents as a kid. Just great.
Had to laugh at the billboard, "after the first time, I couldn't stop touching it".....omg.........the garbage bins look like the one in my garage that I use here in IL.....lol. Awesome views and quite a virtual reality ride on a real gondola...
Spectacular video. One of my favourited of all time. I watch a lot of train cab ride videos and it never occured to me to look up aerial cable car rides. This one is great.
if you like this there are channels dedicated to this sort of video
Thank you - and also no music thank you for that too!
what a magnificent piece of machinery. great video
I'm afraid of heights, but I probably wouldn't pass up something that cool. Thanks for uploading!
About 15 minutes into the video my ears popped.
Marcus F
This sound is normal for ropeways, in the older ones its louder.
@@domi9322 I meant because of the altitude ;)
I like cable cars, went on the ones in Barcelona
Thank you. Thank you so very much for sharing this. This is really the most breathtaking scenery I have ever seen. Just wow.
It would be interesting to see this same journey during the skiing season.
ua-cam.com/video/BvA84hg-CQM/v-deo.html there you go, i'm watching them side by side :) You also get to see the Matterhorn in the winter version.
This is a spectacular video....thank you so much for sharing....
that was completely amazing, thank you for sharing
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Thank you for sharing this experience. Switzerland I have visited a few times. Beautiful country with technical masterpieces! The only thing, it was a very silent ride. :-)
Beautiful video ... and no music - whoopee!
Thanks for sharing a spectacular video. It makes a refreshing change from the train driver’s cab views. 🐨🇦🇺
Stunning, nice calm ride! Thank you
Thank You for filming the whole cable car ride up.
This thing must have cost a fortune to build.
What a great ride. Thank you
Wow! Outstanding, I haven't been in a cable car since 1970 - near Bolzano, Italy. The Swiss are very good at this sort of thing.
It‘s a Doppelmay Garaventa Cable Car. Doppelmayr is an austrian company.
@@frisco1968
yes, you can find them worldwide - one of the best !
regards from an Austrian, livng in México for the last 45 years
Thank you for this video. It has been change since my last ride/visit in 1972.
We drove from Hannover to Bale overnight. Than further from Bale to Brig
and than to Zermatt. Walked within Zermatt to the old cable car and drove to
Schwarzsee Hotel. When we arrived nothing could be seen due to heavy fog.
The next morning sunshine at 2583 metres. Zermatt was below the clouds.
Also in our Hotel was the ski national team of switzerland. They left early in
the morning for there training on Theodulgletscher.
Sadly only the first day was a nice day. The next five days only thunderstormes.
We left Schwarzsee a few days earlier. Our Helicopter flight (Air Zermatt) around
the Matterhorn was cancelled.
Wilfried Brömmelmeyer please what is the best month to visit then
@@bsingh3400 We visited Zermatt (Hotel Schwarzsee atn 2500 metres) on July/August. If you like snow than you should come in February. Not what I like.
Breathtaking!
That is a fantastic ride. We rode it a few years ago. It is not for the faint of heart!
This seems like a sort of futuristic transportation for locals and tourists
Standard equipment in a lot of ski resorts across Europe
You ain't seen nothin yet.... :-) That is actually a fairly old lift system. (2002). Search for the new 3S ride to the Klein Matterhorn. That's state of the art.
Awesome, I have to ride this the views are spectacular!
These mountains along with the clouds/sky, cable wire poles and small building in mountains reminds me of a video game called "Descent 3" The car make me feels I was in the ship flying around the mountains and would fly into the building inside the mountains.
my word that sure was a long journey. most enjoyable. thankyou
i came to think about the movie "Where Eagles Dare" when watching this video, ;) beautiful thanks ;)
Pretty cool, until Richard Burton sticks a pickax in your arm then ties a time bomb to your cable car support.
Wow!!! Hanging way up there in the air and praying they got the engineering right!
don t worry
As long as the Americans can avoid snagging their wings on your cable you'll be OK.
In 1965, took cable cars out of Zermatt and then hiked miles along a ridge and then up to Hoenle Hutte at 11,400 ft. I was 23. My USAF roommate's cousin covered most of our expenses.
Never seen such a long distance cable car before.
It is a pretty long "ride" to Trockener Steg, but you can still go further to Matterhorn Glacier paradise with the cable car (3883m)
That is some fancy engineering to get the cars to move between different cables.
Very beautiful road, thankyou for the raw sound.
9:30 i suppose, this is a maintenance car, "parked" at the pole for inspections?
That's the evacuation gondola.
So beautiful!
Awesome video - Immerses you completely in the experience!
This is such a great video and beautiful quality...beautiful place, too. Thank you Wei-Hsun Lin for this
I wanna ride but my fear of heights says, no way.
asa13 13 I feel the same way but after a few cocktails..maybe..
At around 18:30 did anyone else catch the ad on the wall that says, "After my first time I couldn't stop touching it"?
please calm down
@WonkaaVision- No one but you gives a care about yer ding.
This is absolutely incredible, I love videos such as this, but as I have a great fear of heights, hard for me to even step up on a two rung ladder. this was excruciatingly nerve wracking, I felt as if I were there riding, but in reality there is no way I could truly ever ride this, I'd be petrified the entire time. As for all of you who spoke about the sign at 18:22, get your minds out of the gutter SMH
wow great
so much peace...now i am a little jealous
Very good. What is the wind speed limit for operation? Is there a construction road or was it built using helicopters?
They need one of these up Everest - might stop the traffic jams of climbers up there... 😆
Which are the most dangerous traffic jams in the world, I think.
@@mysteriumvitae5338- No rescue way up on Everest. If you run into trouble @ 24,000’+ your body will be preserved until the sun explodes.
@@algrayson8965 I know. The rescue itself is just too dangerous. But if people managed to create a cable car up there, if there was a possibility to come up there without so much danger... some people would use it. And the ones who climb as a matter of principle would just keep climbing. As they climb Zugspitze despite the extant train up there.
Ausgezeichnetes Panorama und uberblick Matterhorn Region !
The advert to the left at the 18:28 mark!
Lmao, i noticed that too XD
Great ride - thanks!
Belle installation.
Amazing 😍
Perfecto teleférico 🚟🚠🚡👍
Nice piece of engineering.
CO2 free emission.
Breathtaking scenery.
It takes a ton of fuel or coal to produce electricity
Да уж... видео потрясающее!!! Привет Вам из России))).
Outstanding video. How can they make any money with all of the empty cars ?
In winter is packed of people
6:16 Kinda like coming into the Disney Skyliner's hub terminal, except this gondola is a through-line (whereas Disney's Skyliners all require you to disembark at the hub).
beautiful country nice video
Que lugar lindoooo!!!!!
You should see the Merida (Venezuela) cable car. It will bring you high up in the outskirts of the Andes. It is the highest in the world with the last stop at Pico Espejo 4765m above sea level and a length of over 12Km.
Now I wonder... Is this just a tourist ride, or is this really a kind of transport that people use because paving a road or making a railroad is pretty hard (sometimes even impossible) in mountains like these... So in other words, use it to travel between work and home or visit relatives etc. etc. Given the distance (and the number of stops long the way)... I wonder how long is this ride (in km)?
Anyway this is a beautiful ride, I like mountains, but since I live in one of the flattest countries on Earth (yes, that would be the Netherlands) I rarely get to see them with my own two eyes, so I guess the internet will have to do. So thanks a lot for sharing this.
It's mainly an access lift for the ski area and once it's there you might as well use it for asian tourists during the off seasons.
@@ralfoeldi I see.... Thank you ;)
Merci beaucoup...Génial
Wonderful
I was very sad that this video so beautiful and magnificent, was not recorded in 4K, but still congratulations.
Nice video!!!!!
Why are there no riders in any of the other cars? We also have a tramway here in Palm Springs, Calif, but this one is different and much longer route.
This was in off-off-off season. Skiing starts in November, tourists hiking is basically over when snow starts to stay on the ground. Only asian tourists aren't enough to visibly fill the gondolas.
これが循環式ゴンドラリフトだね。初めて見た。
The Matterhorn-Express development are very good but were is the snow?
Love it, amazing
Amazing!
Is this just a scenic ride or what, it would have been nice to see a view from behind too.
It's the access lift to the Matterhorn ski area. During the ski season it's mostly transporting skiers. The rest of the time? Asian tourists.
Zermatt beautiful♡♡
Ciao bellissimo impianto
In all how many cars???
Is this is a kind of transportation or just a fun ride..
both. If you life up there at the top and have a restaurant, then yes this is one of the ways to transport goods. But its mainly to get skiers and travelers up there
Very nice!
Das Matterhorn . der mit Abstand geilste Berg der Welt . Nu is er weg . Wo is er nü ?
Merci, comme si on étiez.....Merci
What's the deal with the one ropeway on top of the other one in segment #2?
There's even a [disabled?] car on it at 9:36. Never seen anything like this.
Each car looks as if it cost a lot. Let alone the system. Reminds me of Troll Hunter.
that is gigantic - das ist gigantisch
if one is not good on legs can you get help to slow the car down to get on
yes
i like it so so much
Можно было и дальше снимать. Зачем остановил сьёмку на полпути?
I wonder how often they change the cable?
Where were they able to get a cable made that long, are they able to splice it together, I noticed that the advertising and name on the cars are in English. Just make sure your life insurance is up to date and your will is in order, how does this thing make any money, all the cars are empty.
@@Peter-pv8xx In wintertime?
@@Peter-pv8xx- Many splices in the cable. The cable isn't subjected to very much wear. It runs in smooth sheaves, everything is greased. They do eventually have to be replaced.
@@Peter-pv8xx- Off season.
Cable looks like it's running 25 - 30 mph
Такого длинного фуникулёра я ещё не видел!!!Километров 30 если не все 40!
6783 метров, какие еще 40 км. И это канатная дорога, не фуникулер.
@@siachoquero он русский. Чё с него возьмёшь. Чел ничё в своей жизни не видел кроме водки. И вряд ли увидит. Такая судьба русских.
It’s been a long time since I’ve been on the Kleine Matterhorn.
Watch in 2x speed. The terminal entry and leaving looks better
Mas para onde vai isso, é deserto.
May I know distance in kms
Yes.
Schön die Fahrt mit anzusehen.
Doch was ist wenn "Technik, die beigeistert" einmal ordentlich versagt?
Viel Spaß Touri!
naja ist ja gegenüber Autounfällen sehr selten
Не хотела бы я в этих домиках жить, где день и ночь над головой "летают" !
I have never seen a half UNI-G station before.
kayak gini nih nanti Rinjani... not bad kok, bagus2 aja
But where is passenger
so the cars never come to a stop? How do elderly people get on and off while the thing is still moving? Or the handicapped, or infirm?
They stop all the cars.
@@BLOCKsignallingUK No they don't. They slow down yes but never come to a complete stop.
@@LegendaryRadioJock- The cars that are not in use - parked, stored, are definitely stopped. The ones that are off of the cable (past the huge pulley wheel) move slowly around the loop in the station, then are accelerated to the cable speed and then lower onto the cable. There is a grip that squeezes the cable to prevent high wind gusts from causing the car to fall off of the cable. The grip doesn't encircle the cable as it has to go over the sheaves on the towers.
A reference is made in one of the comments to a detailed explanatory video.
@@algrayson8965 I was not referring to unused cars. My reply was meant for Steve who claimed all cars in use come to a complete stop.