Cable car · Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland
Stechelberg – Gimmelwald
Stechelberg – Gimmelwald is a cable car near Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. It climbs 501 m over 1.09 km, from 863 m to 1,364 m above sea level. Between its 3 pylons, the cable runs up to about 265 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
97/100 · Very scary
By the numbers, Stechelberg – Gimmelwald is scarier than 97% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 22 of 402 in Switzerland.
- Highest above the ground: about 265 m, higher than the Great Pyramid of Giza (139 m), 715 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 998 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 25°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 913 m of the 1.09 km ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Stechelberg – Gimmelwald is near Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland, at 863 m above sea level (46.55511° N, 7.90178° E). From there it runs 1.09 km up to the top station at 1,364 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Capacity
- 600 people per hour
- Per cabin
- 100 people
- Ride time
- about 4 min
Nearby lines
- Gimmelwald – Mürren cable car · 0.4 km away · rises 266 m
- Stechelberg - Mürren cable car · 0.7 km away · rises 773 m
- Allmendhubelbahn funicular · 1.4 km away · rises 257 m
- Mürren - Birg cable car · 2.0 km away · rises 1,041 m
- Birg - Schlithorn cable car · 4.1 km away · rises 279 m
- Mürrenbahn cable car · 5.2 km away · rises 684 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.