TL;DR
Hintertux Glacier is retiring its 40-year-old gondola to the Tuxer Fernerhaus. The replacement carries 10 people per cabin instead of four, with seat heating and nearly 40 percent more hourly capacity. Doppelmayr's new line opens at the end of October 2026, right as the glacier's high-altitude terrain becomes accessible again for the new season.
Hintertux Glacier is retiring one of its longest-serving lifts, with a new gondola to the Tuxer Fernerhaus set to open at the end of October 2026.
The gondola being replaced dates to 1985 and carries four people per cabin, a capacity that has increasingly struggled to match demand on one of the few glaciers in the Alps offering skiing across all twelve months. Doppelmayr's replacement moves ten people per cabin, with seat heating built in for the roughly seven-minute journey up.
Hourly capacity rises from 1,750 to 2,400 people, an increase of close to 40 percent, and the new line also runs faster: six metres per second against the outgoing lift's five.
The Tuxer Fernerhaus sits at 2,660 metres, with the lift's base station at 2,031 metres - a vertical rise of 629 metres. The station itself functions as one of the key connection points on the glacier, linking lower-altitude access from Sommerberg with the higher lift network that continues toward the Gefrorene Wand at 3,250 metres.
