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Mountains throughout the World with
Lifts top the Top
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Below is a list of Mountains throughout
the World with lifts to the top, or close
to the top, such as Trains, Roads,
Elevators or Gondola's.
The view from high in a mountain is
one of the most amazing experiences you
can ever obtain. Not everyone is fit
enough to climb to a few thousand feet,
or willing to endure the pain you have to
go through to reach that height up a
mountain, so make their way to these
mountains with lifts. Many have shops and
restaurants at the top.
The mountains listed below are in
order of lowest to highest where the lift
ends.
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Aonach Mor/ Nevis
Range by Fort William in Scotland
at 2,150
The Nevis Range is located on the 4,006
ft high Aonoch Mor mountain just north of
Scotlands highest mountain Ben Nevis. The
range caters for almost every type of
snow sport in winter and is popular with
people using the gondola to visit the
Snowgoose Restaurant at 2,150 ft all year
round. The top station, when there is no
snow, allows access to mountain walking
trails suitable for all ages and has well
maintained mountain bike trails. Regular
buses and trains run to Fort William from
all over the UK. Regular buses run
between Fort William and the Nevis Range.
Tel: 01397 705 825. Travel
Info. Map .
Reviews.
snowsports.nevisrange.co.uk
www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/fortwilliam/nevisrange/
Photo Tour . Video
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Fort William
Area info & Accommodation
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Mount Snowdon / Northwest Wales by
Llanberis at 3494 ft
Snowdon is the highest mountain in Wales
at 3,560 ft above sea level, probably the
most climbed mountain in Britain. It is
located in Snowdonia National Park in
Gwynedd. The Snowdon Mountain Railway (a
rack railway) now runs to the top for
anyone not fit enough to walk to the top.
A restaurant and shop can be found at the
top station, just 60 feet below the
summit with incredible views. The easy
walking routes take about 6 hours to the
top and back with the railway and tourist
paths starting from the town of Llanberis.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowdon
www.snowdonrailway.co.uk .
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Cairngorm
situated about 10 miles southeast of
Aviemore in Scotland at 3,599 ft
Cairngorm is a mountain in the Gairngorms
National Park overlooking the town of
Aviemore. At 4084 ft, it is the sixth
highest mountain in the United Kingdom.
Scotland's top ski resort was developed
here from 1960 and the Cairngorm
Mountain Railway was opened in 2001.
The top station has a Visitor Centre and
Restaurant with the best views in
Scotland. The top Ptarmigan Station is at
approximately 3,599 ft. You can book a
guided tour from the top station for a
safe hike to the top of the mountain at
over 4,000 ft. Regular trains and buses
run to Aviemore from all over the UK.
Regular buses run from Aviemore to the
Cairngorm ski centre. Travel
Info . Map.
Reviews.
www.cairngormmountain.co.uk
Aviemore Area
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Tianmen Mountain in China with a
glass bottomed walk at 4,700 ft
Tianmen Mountain at 4,980 ft above sea
level, is situated in the Tianmen
Mountain National Park in China's Hunan
Province, about 5 miles south of Zhangjiajie village. There are
cable cars and a long winding road for
tour buses for transporting tourist close
to the top. Once near the top, you can
climb up the 999 steps to Tianmen
Cave, a 431 ft high natural hole in
the mountain, visit the mountain top
temple, or walk miles of paths that are
built onto the cliff face close to the
top of the mountain. A 200 foot section
of the walkway has a glass floor above a
vertical drop of 1,000s of feet.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianmen_Mountain
Mountain
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Hitler's Eagles
Nest by Berchtesgaden/southwest
Germany at 6,.017 ft
The Kehlsteinhaus or better known as the
Eagles Nest is a chalet erected for the
German dictator Hitler in the Bavarian
Alps on top of the mountain named
Kehlstein at 6,017 ft, which is a sub
peak of the 8,274 ft mountain named Hoher
Goll. The Kehlsteinhaus was built as a
50th birthday present for Adolf Hitler to
serve as a retreat. The building now
serves as a tourist attraction and
restaurant. Tours normaly depart from the
historic German town of Berchtesgaden to the Eagles
Nest with a bus ride about 11 miles
southeast towards the Austrian border.
The bus drops you off at the entrance to
the Elevator that takes you up the final
406 ft to the Eagles Nest. You can also
take tours from many other German or
Austrian cities in that region.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kehlsteinhaus
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Eibsee Cable
Car by
Garmisch-Partenkirchen/southern Germany
at 9,678 ft
The Eibsee Cable Car opened in 1963 to
transfer tourists to just below the
summit of Mount Zugspitze, Germany's highest
mountain at 9,718 ft. The mountain is
situated 7 miles southwest of the German
mountain resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, on the
border between Germany and Austria, next
to Lake
Eibsee. There is a visitor centre and
restaurant at the top station and you can
climb the last 40 feet to the mountain
summit.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eibsee_Cable_Car
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Mount Teide on
the island of Tenerife in the Canary
Islands at 11,663 ft
Mount Teide is a 12,198 ft high volcano
on the popular holiday island of Tenerife
in the Canary Islands, it is the highest
point above sea level of all the islands
in the Atlantic. Buses run from the main
holiday resorts on the southwest of the
island about 30 miles to the base of the
mountain at 7,730 ft, a cable car then
runs to 11,663 ft, as high in the
mountain as you are allowed to go without
a permit.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teide
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Klein
Matterhorn by Zermatt
in southern Switzerland 149 miles east of
Geneva at
12,533 ft
The Klein Matterhorn is a sub-peak of the
13,661 ft mountain named Breithorn. Klein
Matterhorn is where Europe's highest
cable car runs, to the top of the
Zermatt-Cervinia ski area. Many tourist
use the cable car just to visit the top
station with viewing platform, explore
the tunnel into the glacier with ice
sculptures, or to make a guided climb
from the top station to the top of the
Breithorn. The ride up gives
amazing views of the 14,692 ft Matterhorn, one of the world's
scariest mountains.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_Matterhorn
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