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Glacier 3000 (officially Gstaad 3000 AG) is a company that operates several cable cars. It was created in 2005 and took over the assets of the then bankrupt Glacier 3000 Région Les Diablerets-Gstaad S.A., founded in 1993. [1] The company is now based in Gstaad (Switzerland). The main cable car was opened in 1964 and rebuilt in 1999.
Since 1964, an aerial tramway connects the Scex Rouge from the Col du Pillon, 4 kilometres east of the village of Les Diablerets.The Tsanfleuron Glacier, easily accessible from the Scex Rouge mountain station, has then become part of a large ski area with several ski lifts on it, culminating at nearly 3,000 metres, that goes by the commercial name of Glacier 3000.
Les Diablerets with the massif of the Diablerets. Les Diablerets is a village and ski resort located in the municipality of Ormont-Dessus in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland.. The village lies at an altitude of 1,200 metres (3,900 ft) on the north side of the massif of the Diablerets, 3,210 metres (10,530 ft), in the Swiss Alps.
On the other peak is the viewpoint of the Glacier 3000 company. Scex Rouge is about 5 m (16 ft) higher than Glacier 3000's viewpoint. [5] Peak Walk is the world's first suspension bridge which connects two mountain peaks. [6] [7] [8]
The glacier is overlooked by the Scex Rouge and the Oldenhorn on the north, and by the Quille du Diable on the south. Most of the glacier is used as a ski area and is better known under the name of the company operating the ski area Glacier 3000 or Glacier des Diablerets (the latter is in fact a nearby smaller glacier on the summit of the ...
Glacier 3000 cable car Tourism in the Swiss Alps began with the first ascents of the main peaks of the Alps ( Jungfrau in 1811, Piz Bernina in 1850, Monte Rosa in 1855, Matterhorn in 1856, Dom in 1858, Weisshorn in 1861) mostly by British mountain climbers accompanied by the local guides.
The Diablerets Glacier (French: Glacier des Diablerets) is a glacier situated on the summit of Les Diablerets in the Bernese Alps. It covers an area of approximatively 1 km 2 . The Diablerets Glacier is often confused with the nearby much larger and popular Tsanfleuron Glacier .
The Scex Rouge (also spelled Sex Rouge; lit. "red rock"; 2,972 metres (9,751 ft)) is a mountain of the Alps, overlooking Les Diablerets in the canton of Vaud.Along with the Oldenhorn to the east, it is one of the main peaks of the Diablerets, a huge ice-covered mountain near the western end of the Bernese Alps, straddling the border between the cantons of Vaud, Valais, and Bern, and exceeding ...