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Cable car · Guling, China

太乙索道

太乙索道 is a cable car near Guling, China. It climbs 381 m over 695 m, from 716 m to 1,097 m above sea level. With no pylon on the way, the cable runs up to about 26 m above the ground.

How scary is it?

27/100 · Gentle

By the numbers, 太乙索道 is scarier than 27% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 249 of 374 in China.

  • Highest above the ground: about 26 m, as high as a 9-storey building, 212 m after the bottom station.
  • Longest stretch without a pylon: 695 m.
  • Steepest stretch of cable: 29°.

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Where does it start?

The bottom station of 太乙索道 is near Guling, China, at 716 m above sea level (29.53934° N, 115.97948° E). From there it runs 695 m up to the top station at 1,097 m.

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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.