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Revelation Gondola at Revelstoke Mountain Resort near Revelstoke, British Columbia (8 Person, Double Stage Gondola) Burnaby Mountain Gondola in Burnaby, British Columbia (future) Ontario: Village Gondola at Blue Mountain, Ontario (6 Person Open-Air Gondola) Summer Only. In the winter it is converted to a High Speed Six Person Chairlift.
The gondola line was built to provide easy access for local and foreign tourists to the Piyerloti Hill by avoiding a walk through the big Eyüp Cemetery on a hillside. At 53 m (174 ft) altitude, the Piyerloti Hill is named after the French naval officer, novelist and Orientalist Pierre Loti (1850–1923), who used to visit the site during his ...
Gondola Races on the Grand Canal of Venice, by Grigory Gagarin (1830s) "Gondolinos, a slimmer and light-weight version of the gondola, were built for racing and elegant outings. Mark Twain visited Venice in the summer of 1867. He dedicated much of The Innocents Abroad, chapter 23, to describing the curiosity of urban life with gondolas and ...
Open-air gondolas can also come in a style similar to that of pulse gondolas, like the Village Gondola at Panorama Ski Resort, British Columbia. The first gondola built in the United States for a ski resort was at the Wildcat Mountain Ski Area. It was a two-person gondola built in 1957 and serviced skiers until 1999.
The line was built by the French company Pomagalski and is operated by the local company Turipenha. The line opened on 24 June 1995, and was the first cable car to operate in Portugal. It is 1,646 metres (5,400 ft) in length, is supported on 14 pylons, and there is a 366-metre (1,201 ft) height difference between the two stations. [1] [2]
A gondola lift consists of a continuously circulating cable that is strung between two or more stations, over intermediate supporting towers. The cable is driven by a bullwheel in a terminal, which is connected to an engine or electric motor . [ 3 ]
On 12 October 1799, Labrosse ascended in a gondola with a balloon before detaching the balloon and descending in the gondola by parachute from an altitude of 900 meters. In doing so, she became the first woman to parachute. [4] She went on to complete many ascents and parachute descents in towns across France and Europe. [1]
The gondola is open during the winter and summer season, in spring and autumn it closes for maintenance operations and safety checks. The current gondola was built in 2008 by manufacturer Leitner, it can accommodate up to 8 people and can reach a speed of 6 meters per second. It has a transportation capacity of 2400 people per hour.