Going downhill: more than 50 Swiss ski lifts are rusting away
Chairlifts, T-bar lifts and cable cars are being shut down for economic reasons, but also increasingly for climate-related reasons.
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Chairlifts, T-bar lifts and cable cars are being shut down for economic reasons, but also increasingly for climate-related reasons.
Since the local company that ran the small station folded, the infrastructure and facilities have been left as a disintegrating blemish on the Alpine landscape.
In a remote, secluded valley in the Swiss Alps, a line of rusty ski lift masts scar the grassy hillside where cows lazily graze.
In a remote, secluded valley in the Swiss Alps, a row of rusting ski lift pylons scars the grassy hillside where cows graze lazily.
The lifts at the Super Saint-Bernard ski resort in Switzerland's southern Wallis canton have not run since 2010. In all, up to two million Swiss francs will be needed to dismantle the station.