The look is modern, not the old forms of the past, but architecturally combines with the rocks and glaciers. A symbol of technological change, which in the mountains is taking on aspects that are perhaps discuss, but which allow the creation of structures and functional facilities, safe and environmentally friendly.
One of the novelties in the Alpine panorama 2015 Skyway is the Mont Blanc , the cableway inaugurated on May 30 last, able to carry every day thousands of people (up to 3000) by 1,370 meters of the resort Pontal d’Entreves, just above Courmayeur, a few steps from the tunnel of Mont Blanc, the 3375 meters of Punta Helbronner in the heart of the glaciers above the historic Torino refuge.
The reconstruction works of two sections of Skyway (way to heaven) lasted four years, from March 2011 to May this year, at a cost of about 138 million euro.
The plant, built by Doppelmayer is divided into two sections with 4 cabins . Two in the first jump, from the Palud at the Pavillon (2173m) carry 80 people, those from Pavillon Punta Helbronner each have a capacity of 75 people. They are moved by two electric motors of 430 kW, with inverter, and allow the recovery of energy. Downhill can produce electricity that is used to heat the water, via resistors, for buildings. The rest produce heat pumps. All buildings have energy certification A and A +. At some stations covers are made with photovoltaic panels that produce electricity during the day. Feature of the cabins is to perform, on the way up and down, a rotation of 360 ° allowing to observe the breath-taking round.
From 30 May to 31 August rose to 120 Helbronner thousand people , accomplices numerous sunny days of summer. The company has set up cable cars of Mont Blanc in the stations of the Pavillon and Punta Helbronner some spaces that allow you to know something more of the mountain, not only admire from a special balcony its superb scenery. Pavillon at the winery at altitude, because the refuge Torino (3300 meters) refines the spumante Vallée d’Aoste Dop Blanc de Morgex et de La Salle “Cuvée des Guides”; the restaurant; gift shop; a conference room, where films are projected on the picturesque Aosta Valley. Outside, where the old station are renovating, a beautiful botanical garden.
The refuge Torino is located just below the station of the Skyway and is in renovation, will reopen in the spring of 2016. Today it is very easy to reach from the station of Punta Helbronner, dropping no more for old ladders, but with a lift, in the heart of the mountain, and along a tunnel one hundred meters. It comes out of a door a few meters from the shelter again, turning left you are walking on the white mantle of the giant glacier. A tip Helbronner is undoubtedly the panoramic terrace, you can admire the peaks of 360 ° White and the Aosta valley, up to the Matterhorn, Monte Rosa and the Gran Paradiso, the most interesting point, but there is also the hall of the crystals, the Mont Blanc room, with views of the peak and the bar called, and could not be otherwise, bistro de glacier with a chef who prepares dishes of high quality as well as high altitude. The cable cars of the White work since 1937 and over the years have undergone changes, especially related to upgrades and modifications to comply.
In 1957 he was made a cableway advanced , the connection with Chamonix, through a bold cableway that leads from Punta Helbronner, flying over the glaciers of Mont Blanc, the Aiguille du Midi (3842 m) where the plants come – in two sections – from Chamonix. The stretch of glaciers is about 5 km long, is open in the summer months and is famous because the ropes are governed by a pylon suspended. The Skyway White will finish the season on November 1, to reopen from 4 December to 30 May 2016. The possibilities ski remained the same both on the Italian side, it is fascinating to France Mer de Glace.
On a beautiful late summer day we went to see the new system that in two jumps, a little more than four minutes of the first 6 and the second door where rocks and glaciers meet the sky. Slogans speak eighth wonder and indeed with clear skies White is a sight to delight. The comments on the terrace on the top of Punta Helbronner were of awe, wonder and satisfaction, because the scenery is impressive, with sharp Peuterey ridge and the surrounding peaks, the Brenva glacier, eroded by climate change, the Aiguille du Midi north, where did the French system, the lone Giant’s Tooth and farther east the Grandes Jorasses, Courmayeur and the valley.
Mountains impressive-looking and severe, can stir admiration and make me want to try to turn around, but remember that climbers, especially at those odds, there is sudden, it takes the right physical and technical preparation. Ticket to give everyone a piece of paper in three languages with the right recommendations: avoid venturing glacier, if you are new.
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