Moosfluh glacier lift
The Moosfluh Gletscherbahn was built in 2015 to replace the old Moosfluhbahn . The railway is in operation all year round. The Kombibahn from Doppelmayr from Wolfurt in Austria should allow geological subsidence or horizontal shifts of the mountain station of up to nine or eleven meters, because the Moosfluh shifts a few centimeters every year due to the increasingly retreating Aletsch Glacier . These movements have intensified more and more since 2011, which is why renewed construction work was required to stabilize the mountain station in autumn 2016.
Route: Riederalp – Blausee – Moosfluh
The cable car ride towards Blausee begins at an altitude of 1,895 m on Riederalp in Valais . The train first crosses a ski slope and then drives into a forest. Passing cow and goat pastures, the passengers float over the Chüestall mountain restaurant, which can only be reached on foot in summer and on snowboard or skis in winter. Shortly afterwards the train reaches the mountain lake Blausee. The name comes from the very blue water in this lake.
A few meters away from the intermediate station is the middle station of the Blausee chairlift , which brings ski tourists from neighboring Bettmeralp to the slopes in winter . There is usually no exit here, but if the cable car cannot go to the mountain station due to bad weather, there is an exit option here.
The second section of the route then goes from Blausee to the Moosfluh mountain station.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Johanna Pfund: Guten Rutsch ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 3, 2016.
- ↑ The new Moosfluh combined glacier lift.
- ↑ Spiegel Online: Ice melt causes slope to slide dramatically , January 24, 2017
- ↑ ETH Zurich: Chronicle of a catastrophic landslide , January 23, 2017
- ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Researchers trace dramatic landslides in the Aletsch region , January 23, 2017
Coordinates: 46 ° 23 '45.7 " N , 8 ° 2' 53.2" E ; CH1903: 646 876 / 138477
