{"id":1767,"date":"2021-03-02T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T07:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2021-03-03T10:16:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T10:16:14","slug":"new-eiger-express-lift-for-grindelwald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/03\/new-eiger-express-lift-for-grindelwald\/","title":{"rendered":"New Eiger Express lift for Grindelwald (Feb 21 Update)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>February 2021 Update<\/strong><br>Charlie Rees from <a href=\"https:\/\/theskipodcast.com\/\">The Ski Podcast<\/a> recently travelled to the Jungfrau region (from within Switzerland) to test the new lift. You can listen to his report here from 32:30:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-audioboom wp-block-embed-audioboom\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Audioboom player\" width=\"100%\" height=\"95\" src=\"https:\/\/embeds.audioboom.com\/posts\/7802095\/embed?v=202301#?secret=9TClhg9XBj\" data-secret=\"9TClhg9XBj\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While some resorts are scaling back, in Grindelwald, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/switzerland\">Switzerland<\/a>, the new Eiger Express will open in December 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will be the second gondola lift of the <a href=\"https:\/\/v-bahn.jungfrau.ch\/\">V-Cableway Project<\/a> that will take guests from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/Grindelward\">Grindelwald<\/a> terminal to the Eiger Glacier station in just 15 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/grindelwald-eiger-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/grindelwald-eiger-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/grindelwald-eiger-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/grindelwald-eiger-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/grindelwald-eiger-190x107.jpg 190w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/grindelwald-eiger-60x34.jpg 60w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/grindelwald-eiger-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/grindelwald-eiger.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>47 minutes faster to the Jungfraujoch<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It means that visitors will be able to reach the Jungfraujoch (3454m) a full 47 minutes faster than before and enjoy attractions such as the Ice Palace, Alpine Sensation and Snow Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state of the art 26-seat cabins will whisk guests close to the famous north face of the Eiger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/grindelwald-eiger2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/grindelwald-eiger2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/grindelwald-eiger2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/grindelwald-eiger2-143x190.jpg 143w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/grindelwald-eiger2-60x80.jpg 60w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/grindelwald-eiger2-251x335.jpg 251w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/grindelwald-eiger2.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>The new gondolas will seat 26 people<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/03\/new-eiger-express-lift-for-grindelwald\/\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/grindelwald-eiger-190x107.jpg);\" class=\"thumb_crop\">https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/grindelwald-eiger-190x107.jpg<\/a><p>February 2021 UpdateCharlie Rees from The Ski Podcast recently travelled to the Jungfrau region (from within Switzerland) to test the new lift. You can listen to his report here from 32:30: While some resorts are scaling back, in Grindelwald, Switzerland, &hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/03\/new-eiger-express-lift-for-grindelwald\/\">read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1868,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions\/1868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}