Cable car · Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland
Stechelberg - Mürren
Stechelberg - Mürren is a cable car near Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. It climbs 773 m over 857 m, from 861 m to 1,634 m above sea level. Between its 4 pylons, the cable runs up to about 368 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
99/100 · Among the scariest
By the numbers, Stechelberg - Mürren is scarier than 99% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 3 of 402 in Switzerland.
- Highest above the ground: about 368 m, higher than the Eiffel Tower (330 m), 349 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 488 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 53°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 408 m of the 857 m ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Stechelberg - Mürren is near Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland, at 861 m above sea level (46.55544° N, 7.90196° E). From there it runs 857 m up to the top station at 1,634 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Capacity
- 800 people per hour
- Per cabin
- 85 people
Nearby lines
- Gimmelwald – Mürren cable car · 0.6 km away · rises 266 m
- Stechelberg – Gimmelwald cable car · 0.7 km away · rises 501 m
- Allmendhubelbahn funicular · 0.7 km away · rises 257 m
- Mürren - Birg cable car · 1.7 km away · rises 1,041 m
- Birg - Schlithorn cable car · 3.9 km away · rises 279 m
- Mürrenbahn cable car · 4.6 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.