LIVE FROM LA PLAGNE: The Montalbert Gondola

The big news from La Plagne this year is the arrival of the Montalbert cable car, whose journey from the planning stage to coming on stream has been chronicles by the excellent Perso-LaPlagne site. (Their new Twitter account can be found here).

The new gondola apparently cuts journey times from Montalbert (1300m) to Le Fornalet (1970m) from half an hour or so to just six minutes.

The ongoing development of La Plagne's slopes is not without its controversy.  At the other extreme of the ski area, the local politicians are ranting at plans to reduce in scope/rationalise (delete as appropriate) the Montchavin/Les Coches lifts.  More here.

The arrival of the new facility has
made four older lifts redundant