As the ski season winds down in Europe and North America, more resorts are announcing their big 2015 summer projects.
Laax is the latest resort to announce it will have a major new lift in place for winter 2015-16, a large gondola complete with cabins each capable of seating ten skiers or boarders.
The new lift, which has a 15 million Swiss franc (around £11.3m) price tag, will access the resort's La Siala sector from Sogn Martin.
The lift will climb 831 vertical metres over a 3.37km long length in nine minutes, 21 seconds on a slightly longer distance ascent than the lift it replaces. The resort says that this will mean a larger ski area will be opened up at La Siala.
The Leitner built lift, which replaces a much slower old triple chairlift, will initially carry 63 cabins and have an hourly uplift capacity of 1,800 people, but that will then be expanded to 70 cabins giving an increased limit of 2,000 skiers and boarders per hour.