Italy's Kronplatz ski area in the Dolomiti Superski region is one of the big ski area success stories of the 21st century and one of just a handful of ski areas in the world operating at least 15 gondola lifts.
In fact in Kronplatz's case 20 of its lifts, about two thirds of the total, are gondolas.
Its success is such though that it is already upgrading gondola lifts built in the current century to still bigger, faster models.
Two such upgrades are underway ahead of winter 23-24 with the new Kronplatz I and Kronplatz II gondolas with cabins each capable of carrying 10 people at a speed of 6 metres per second giving an uplift capacity of 3000 people per hour replacing gondolas with the same name built 20 years ago with mere 8 person cabins.
The two lifts climb about 1300 vertical metres over an approximately four kilometre long combined ascent in around 12 minutes.
There's little change is ascent time for the new lifts compared to the old but the increased cabin size means uplift capacity of the route will increase by about a third.