Cable car · Grachen, Switzerland
Kalpetran-Embd
Kalpetran-Embd is a cable car near Grachen, Switzerland. It climbs 510 m over 746 m, from 900 m to 1,410 m above sea level. Between its 1 pylon, the cable runs up to about 90 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
82/100 · Scary
By the numbers, Kalpetran-Embd is scarier than 82% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 156 of 402 in Switzerland.
- Highest above the ground: about 90 m, as high as a 30-storey building, 396 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 441 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 41°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 327 m of the 746 m ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Kalpetran-Embd is near Grachen, Switzerland, at 900 m above sea level (46.21432° N, 7.83697° E). From there it runs 746 m up to the top station at 1,410 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Per cabin
- 8 people
Nearby lines
- Embd-Schalb cable car · 0.8 km away · rises 477 m
- Grächen - Hannigalp gondola · 2.3 km away · rises 501 m
- Luftseilbahn Stalden - Staldenried cable car · 3.9 km away · rises 356 m
- St. Niklaus - Sparren cable car · 4.8 km away · rises 730 m
- Luftseilbahn Staldenried - Gspon cable car · 4.9 km away · rises 739 m
- Seilbahn Schweiben - Eisten - ZumTann cable car · 7.3 km away · rises 369 m
Pylon heights are estimated (30 m), so the height above ground is approximate. Terrain: swissALTI3D © swisstopo, 2 m. Data as of 2026-10-31.