The change in Swiss ski resorts

These historic photos show how Switzerland’s ski resorts have changed Titlis, Wengen, Zermatt, Davos and St Moritz have changed in recent years. In addition to the means of transport, there is also a clear evolution in outdoor clothing.

Start construction cable car Titlis

At the end of June 1965, the first line from Trübsee to the middle station was put into operation. The second part followed in 1967.

Helicopter transport of the cabins of the Titlisbahn in Engelberg, Canton Obwalden, photographed March 15, 1965. (KEYSTONE/PHOTOPRESS ARCHIVE/Baumann)

Outdoor clothing looked very different.

Color photograph of a group of skiers in Engelberg, Switzerland, wearing typical equipment and clothing from the 1970s, pictured on November 30, 1969. (KEYSTONE/PHOTOPRESS-ARCHIV/Str) Color photograph of a ...
The mountain station of the Titlisbahn at Kleintitlis in the canton of Obwalden, photographed in May 1988. (KEYSTONE/Str)

Another milestone was the Titlis Rotair, the world’s first revolving cable car. The maiden voyage took place on December 20, 1992.

Albert Wyler, left, and Eugenio Rueegger, the directors of the Titlisbahnen at the opening of the Rotair-Titlisbahn near Engelberg in the canton of Obwalden, the first revolving mountain railway between Stand and ...

In 2014, the Rotair received two new cabins and since then the entire gondola has rotated once on its own axis during the journey.

Tourists are waiting for the Rotair Titlis cable car for the trip to Mount Titlis on the occasion of a report on tourism in the Engelberg and Titlis region during the corona pandemic on Friday 7 ...
WAB steam locomotive no. 4, of SLM, built in 1892, with summer car
A mixed-age school class from Boenigen, Switzerland, is skiing in the Bernese Oberland, taken on February 1, 1944. (KEYSTONE/PHOTOPRESS-ARCHIVE/Walter Studer) Senior teacher Michel from Boenigen with his ...
Skiers use the ski lift on the Kleine Scheidegg mountain pass in the canton of Bern, Switzerland, to get to the Lauberhorn mountain, pictured on December 12, 1941. (KEYSTONE/PHOTOPRESS-ARCHIVE/Str) S ...
The ski race on the Lauberhorn
The old trainsets of the Lauterbrunnen-Mürren cable car served for 56 years.  Now they are being replaced.  They have now been replaced by three new trainsets which entered service on 8 June 1967.
A film team at the Lauberhorn race
A Jungfraubahn train departs from the station on Kleine Scheidegg to head back to Wengen in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, pictured on March 2, 2005. The Eiger with the Eiger…
Built in 1906 by SLM
Famous ski racer Otto Furrer (left) uses the new ski lift, which has just been inaugurated, pictured on December 20, 1942 in Zermatt in the canton of Valais, Switzerland.  (KEYSTONE/PHOTOPRESS ARCHIVE/H...
The community center in Zermatt in the canton of Valais, photographed in March 1957. (KEYSTONE/PHOTOPRESS-ARCHIVE/Gassmann)
Snowcat in the Valais Alps, 1967 (Photo by RDB/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

On Sept 22 1977 The intensive construction work for the gondola and cable car to the 3817 meter high Klein Matterhorn started, as the photo of the intermediate station shows.

On 23 Dec 1979 the railway is then put into operation.

On September 22, 1977, intensive construction was carried out on the gondola and cable car to the 3817 meter high Klein Matterhorn, as the photo from the intermediate station "dry ...
The gondola and cable car to the 3817 meter high Klein Matterhorn.  Photo taken from the intermediate station "Dry jetty" on January 21, 1990. (KEYSTONE/Str) The gondola and airside ...
The new 3S cable car on the right, just before opening on Saturday, September 29, 2018 in Zermatt, Valais, Switzerland.  After three summer seasons of construction work with 38 companies involved, a ...
The Strela ski lift
Tourists in a horse-drawn sleigh in Davos, Graubünden, taken in February 1945. (KEYSTONE/PHOTOPRESS ARCHIVE/Milou Steiner)
The upper part of the Parsennbahn
A gondola from 1961
Which is not all: a skiing dachshund in Davos
Skiers wait in front of the valley station in Davos.
The rink house in Davos, designed in 1934 by architect Rudolf Gaberel, photographed February 3, 1989. (KEYSTONE/Str)
On Tuesday, January 15, 2008, the cable car will float from the base station at the Parsennhütte towards the Weissfluhjoch in the Parsenn ski area above Davos.  (KEYSTONE/Arno Balzarini)
Men play curling on the ice field in St. Moritz on a sunny day, photographed in January 1911. (KEYSTONE/Photopress-Archiv/Str) === , === : FILM, medium format]
Cross-country skiers waxing their skis during Swiss ski racer training in December 1947 in St. Moritz.  (KEYSTONE/PHOTOPRESS ARCHIVE/Hermann Schmidli)
Austrian ski racer Erika Mahringer in action in the downhill at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, pictured Feb. 2, 1948. Mahringer placed in the downhill…
The cableway to the Corviglia above St. Moritz in the Upper Engadine, undated photo from the 1950s. (KEYSTONE/PHOTOPRESS ARCHIVE/Str)
The Cresta Run ice channel from St. Moritz to Celerina in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland, is prepared for the skeleton season with the help of snow cannons, taken in December 1969. The snow ...
Ski tourists wait at the gondola at the Corviglia ski resort in St. Moritz, Switzerland, photo taken January 26, 1976. (KEYSTONE/PHOTOPRESS-ARCHIVE/Str) Ski tourists wait at the Corv ...
A Piz Nair cabin at the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Finals in St. Moritz, Canton Graubünden, Switzerland, pictured on March 19, 2016. (KEYSTONE/Christian Beutler) The Piz Nair gondola at the Audi Fis Ski…

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