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Cable car station Trockener Steg
Furi - Trockener Steg cable car

Trockener Steg , also called Trockner Steg , is a mountain ridge in the Valais Alps . The ridge is at 2900 to 3000  m . Trockener Steg is located a few kilometers from Zermatt and 3 km from the Furggsattel . The glacier tongue of the Theodul glacier is about one kilometer from the Trockener Steg mountain station. On the south side, Trockener Steg is more than 1000 m above the Gorner Glacier, which is further north . The slopes there are quite steep. On the eastern side, the plateau rises only slightly until, after a horizontal length of 2 km, it finally reaches a height of 3300 meters. Then the pyramid of the Klein Matterhorn rises abruptly to a height of 3885  m . The rock faces in this area are mostly tangled and very steep. On the southern side, the Theodul Glacier rises slightly until the terrain drops again to 3400  m ( Plateau Rosa ), where the border between Italy and Switzerland is located.

On the western side, the plateau drops off moderately steeply.

history

  • 1955: Foundation of the LZS (aerial cableway Zermatt - Schwarzsee )
  • 1955/56: Construction of the Zermatt - Furi - Schwarzsee cable car
  • 1962: Construction of the Furgg - Schwarzsee aerial cableway
  • 1962–1965: Construction of the Zermatt - Furi - Furgg - Trockener Steg cable car
  • 1979: Opening of the cable car to the Kleine Matterhorn
  • 1982: Construction of the Zermatt - Furi six-seater gondola and the Furi - Trockener Steg aerial cableway
  • 1990: Construction of the Furgg chairlift - Sandiger Boden - Theodul Glacier
  • 1991: Opening of the group gondola lift Furgg - Schwarzsee to replace the old aerial cableway
  • 2002: Opening of the eighth Matterhorn-Express cable car Zermatt - Furi - Schwarzsee
  • 2003: Opening of the new Furggsattel chairlift . The Furggsattel Gletscherbahn is the first chairlift to be built on a Swiss glacier. It is the longest glacier chairlift in Europe. The mountain station is on Italian soil.
  • 2009: Construction of the extension of the Matterhorn Express from Schwarzsee via Furg to Trockener Steg. This lift replaces the old gondola lift from 1965 from Furgg to Trockener Steg and the group gondola lift Furgg - Schwarzsee. With the new lift, the Trockener Steg can be reached in 25 minutes without changing trains.

Curiosities, records and details

  • The Trockener Steg mountain restaurant is one of the highest in Europe.
  • Trockener Steg is the third coldest inhabited place in the Western Alps . Only the Jungfraujoch and the Kleine Matterhorn are even colder. The results are based on records, not average values.
  • A cable car leads from Trockener Steg to the Kleine Matterhorn, the highest cable car station in Europe.
  • The longest tow lift in the world, the Gandegg (Zermatt) ski lift , is located here.
  • From the Trockenen Steg you have a view of more than 30 four-thousand-meter peaks .
  • The Trockener Steg – Klein Matterhorn summer ski area is the largest in Europe.

Coordinates: 45 ° 58 '  N , 7 ° 43'  E ; CH1903:  621 981  /  91130