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A new cable car is beginning service at Germany's highest peak, with VIPs getting to enjoy the first ascent Thursday. The cable car to the Zugspitze mountain is being billed as a world-record-breaking work of German engineering, featuring the biggest altitude difference between the base and summit station and the greatest distance between the summit and the only support pillar. Let us take a look at some of the breathtaking pictures of the new cable car to the Zugspitze mountain:
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The 50-million-euro ($59-million) installation replaces a cable car from 1963 that could take 240 tourists an hour to the 2,962-meter (9,718-foot) Alpine peak. (AP Photo)
No other cable car on the planet spans further than the 3,213 metres from the base to the summit station. (AP Photo) -
The new cable car can manage more than twice as many passengers. (AP Photo)
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People enjoy the view from the new panorama cable car on their way to the highest German mountain, the Zugspitze, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. (AP Photo)
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The new panorama cable car makes its way to the highest German mountain, the Zugspitze, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. (AP Photo)
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Munich's Archbishop Cardinal Reinhard Marx and the Protestant Bishop for Munich and Upper Bavaria, Susanne Breit-Kessler, will bless the cable car before its first official trip. (AP Photo)
