Tourist attraction
Banff Gondola
Bi-cable gondola climbing a steep forested slope to a mountaintop terminal with sweeping valley views.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Banff Gondola on Sulphur Mountain follows the engineering behind the ride, starting with a mismatch between the cable's length and the mountain's true rise. It traces back to Swiss mountain guide John Jaeggi, who ran a teahouse at the summit in the nineteen forties supplied entirely by packhorse, and the nineteen fifty eight crews who fought rockslides and mountain winters to string steel up the slope. Listen for the old horse trail hidden in the trees below as you ride above it.
This audio guide was created using AI.