Mountain Lifts · Saas-Fee
Alpin Express in Saas-Fee.
Ride the Alpin Express from Saas-Fee and see the landscape from one of the early three-cable gondolas.
About this ride
The Alpin Express wins the winter games Olympic Gold medal amongst the tricable gondola!
The first tricable gondola (3S-Bahn) lift went into public service in Saas Fee in year 1991. This was a major milestone in the ropeways industry and definitively a pioneering work. The ropeway engineering challenge was found by the Swiss company Von Roll Transportsysteme of Thun. On September 10, 1991 the first cabin was launched on the line of the first stage of the Saas Fee installation aka Alpin Express. The next tricable gondola was built almost 10 years later in Val dʼIsère. Nowadays all noteworthy ski resorts (e.g. Zermatt Matterhorn glacier ride, Grindelwald Eiger Express) must have one!
The Saas Valley has gigantic mountains, humbling people and often rendering them speechless. There are eighteen four-thousand-metre peaks in the Saas-Fee region. They are a symbol of the magic of the Saas Valley, inclusive the Mischabel Massif and the Alphubel. One of them, the Dom mountain (4,545m) is often considered to be the highest Swiss mountain because it stands entirely on Swiss territory. One of the most famous and probably the most distinctive mountain is the Allalin with it rounded shape.
