Cable car · Lanzada, Italy
Snow Eagle
Snow Eagle is a cable car near Lanzada, Italy. It climbs 1,069 m over 1.64 km, from 986 m to 2,055 m above sea level. With no pylon on the way, the cable runs up to about 185 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
97/100 · Very scary
By the numbers, Snow Eagle is scarier than 97% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 9 of 301 in Italy.
- Highest above the ground: about 185 m, higher than the Great Pyramid of Giza (139 m), 568 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 1.64 km.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 33°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 1.43 km of the 1.64 km ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Snow Eagle is near Lanzada, Italy, at 986 m above sea level (46.27336° N, 9.85495° E). From there it runs 1.64 km up to the top station at 2,055 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Opened
- 1999
- Operator
- Funivia al Bernina F.A.B. S.r.l.
- Capacity
- 1,400 people per hour
- Per cabin
- 160 people
- Ride time
- about 4 min
Nearby lines
- Ascensore inclinato, Lanzada funicular · 1.0 km away · rises 64 m
- Murtèl-Corvatsch cable car · 16.3 km away · rises 596 m
- Sils-Furtschellas cable car · 17.4 km away · rises 512 m
- Pranzaira-Albigna cable car · 18.1 km away · rises 899 m
- Surlej-Murtèl cable car · 18.3 km away · rises 831 m
- Luftseilbahn Bernina-Diavolezza cable car · 18.5 km away · rises 882 m
Pylon heights are estimated (30 m), so the height above ground is approximate. Terrain: Copernicus GLO-30, 30 m. Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. Data as of 2026-10-31.