Yesterday after going to the music festival we decided it'd be a great idea to go to the top of Mont Fort (3330m) by cablecar where stunning views over the mountains including Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn were promised. Roger had not been this high since he climbed Mount Kinabalu with Rob Bruce in 2011 and wanted some altitude!
In the Tourist Information booklet it said the cable car was between Verbier and another town, so we set off (in the car) to find it. The other town was 100km and 90 minutes away..... It turns out there was a cablecar network between these two towns and the cablecar to Mont Fort was part of this. We had driven around another mountain range needlessly! After our wild goose chase there wasn't time to go to the summit and it had clouded over but the nice lady in the ticket booth gave us free passes for today.
So this morning, with clear blue skies and now knowing where we were going we set off again. we took 5 different cablecars to get to the summit which was a lot of fun (especially the long chair lift). You could certainly feel the effects of the altitude and there was a lot of snow which pleased Alex and Charlie who of course had a snowball fight.
La Rampe is the orange slide to the left of the top station. It is a ski ramp at 60 degrees with the warning 'to be used by experienced skiiers only'(!) record speed 219kph!!
Question of the day: Which mountain are Toblerone bars modeled on?
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| At the top! |
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| Panorama from the top |
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| On the chairlift |
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| The final cablecar (where Eagles dare) |
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| Top station with 'La Rampe' |
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| The Matterhorn |
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| A St Bernard dog complete with brandy barrel |
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