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Lagorai
The Lagorai is a mountain range in the Eastern Alps, in Trentino, northern Italy.It is located between the Monte Panarotta from Trento and Rolle Pass, for a length of some 70 km...
group in eastern Trentino, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
in the comune
Comune
In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...
of Cavalese
Cavalese
Cavalese is a comune of 3,665 inhabitants in Trentino, northern Italy, a ski resort and the main center in the Val di Fiemme.The cable car from Cavalese to the nearby mountain Cermis has been the site of two major cable-car accidents, one in 1976 and one in 1998 Cavalese is a comune of 3,665...
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Part of the Val di Fiemme-Obereggen, it is famous for its ski slopes.
It was the scene of major disasters involving the aerial tramway
Aerial tramway
An aerial tramway , cable car , ropeway or aerial tram is a type of aerial lift which uses one or two stationary ropes for support while a third moving rope provides propulsion...
style cable car
Cable car
A cable car is any of a variety of transportation systems relying on cables to pull vehicles along or lower them at a steady rate, or a vehicle on these systems.-Aerial lift:Aerial lifts where the vehicle is suspended in the air from a cable:...
system on the mountain: the Cavalese cable car disaster
Cavalese cable-car disaster (1976)
The Cavalese cable car disaster of 1976 is the deadliest cable car accident ever. On 9 March 1976 the steel supporting cable of an aerial tramway-style cable car broke as a car was descending from Cermis near the Italian ski-resort Cavalese in the Dolomites, 40 km north-east of Trento.The...
in 1976, and the Cavalese cable car disaster in 1998; the latter occurred when a U.S. military plane cut a cable supporting a gondola of an aerial tramway
Aerial tramway
An aerial tramway , cable car , ropeway or aerial tram is a type of aerial lift which uses one or two stationary ropes for support while a third moving rope provides propulsion...
. The two cable car runs of the system involved in those incidents have since been replaced by three consecutive multi-cabin gondola lift
Gondola lift
A gondola lift is a type of aerial lift, normally called a cable car, which is supported and propelled by cables from above. It consists of a loop of steel cable that is strung between two stations, sometimes over intermediate supporting towers. The cable is driven by a bullwheel in a terminal,...
s. The arrival site of the first chair lift, from where the second starts, may be also reached by road.