VIDEO: Work Starts on Highest Lift in Europe, Running Between Zermatt, Switzerland & Cervinia, Italy

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Construction of ‘Alpine X‘ — the highest ropeway crossing of the Alps running between Zermatt in Switzerland and Cervinia in Italy — has begun.

The monumental project’s website states:

“The cableway connection between the Matterhorn glacier paradise (Klein Matterhorn) and Testa Grigia sees the realization of a once-in-a-generation dream: to be able to travel the entire way from the Matterhorn village of Zermatt (Switzerland) to Breuil-Cervinia (Italy) without having to get your boots wet! It’s a visionary cableway project that will further enhance the status of Zermatt-Matterhorn as a premium high-alpine destination. The panoramic journey, lasting around one hour from Switzerland to Italy or vice versa, will cover an altitude difference of over 4’000 metres – the greatest by any cableway in Europe.”

The project has an estimated budget of 35 million Swiss Franks (36,398,740 USD) and should be completed by winter 2021/22.

The lift will run from the Zermatt-Matterhorn Glacier in Switzerland to Cervinia, Italy.

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  1. Another cable car runs the other way from Cervinia to Zermatt.
    On a day ski adventure decades ago the return cable car to Zermatt closed
    due to a storm. We had to ride 5 pomalifts to get back.

    Our so called guide was AWOL off chasing a woman and got stuck in Cervinia for 4 days
    Never found the gal.

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