If bigger is better, then skiiers and thrill-seekers in Bavaria’s alps are in for a boost, as the world’s tallest cable car, on the Zugspitze, is replaced by a newer, taller, bigger one.
The current system, built in 1963, takes 240 passengers an hour from Eibsee in the valley to the top of Germany’s highest mountain. The new car, to open in December after the old one is dismantled, will take 600 passengers an hour.
And it will be taller, going up 3,213 metres from the new base station, compared to 2,962 on the original.
Over 21 million passengers rode the old cars, for the equivalent of 76 trips around the world. The retired cars will be preserved (a spokesperson said “The old carriages will be given a seat of honor.”) but plans have not been announced.
