Cable car · Verbier, Switzerland
Mont-Gelé
Mont-Gelé is a cable car near Verbier, Switzerland. It climbs 267 m over 820 m, from 2,730 m to 2,997 m above sea level. Between its 2 pylons, the cable runs up to about 218 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
93/100 · Very scary
By the numbers, Mont-Gelé is scarier than 93% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 59 of 402 in Switzerland.
- Highest above the ground: about 218 m, higher than the Great Pyramid of Giza (139 m), 428 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 820 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 18°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 766 m of the 820 m ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Mont-Gelé is near Verbier, Switzerland, at 2,730 m above sea level (46.09907° N, 7.26877° E). From there it runs 820 m up to the top station at 2,997 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Operator
- Téléverbier
- Capacity
- 400 people per hour
- Per cabin
- 40 people
- Ride time
- about 4 min
Nearby lines
- Funispace cable car · 1.0 km away · rises 527 m
- Tortin-Chassoure gondola · 1.8 km away · rises 696 m
- Jumbo cable car · 1.9 km away · rises 641 m
- Médran 2 gondola · 2.4 km away · rises 668 m
- Médran 4 gondola · 2.4 km away · rises 664 m
- Mont-Fort cable car · 3.3 km away · rises 410 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.