Gondelbahn Grindelwald-Männlichen, Aerial lift in Grindelwald, Switzerland

The Gondelbahn Grindelwald-Männlichen is a two-section gondola lift running from Grindelwald-Grund (937 m) via the Holenstein intermediate station (1624 m) to the Männlichen top station (2225 m), a height difference of 1288 m. Since December 2019 it uses 111 orange-and-glass ten-passenger cabins of Garaventa's D-Line type, carried on 33 pylons; the cable changes at Holenstein, where the line bends left towards the summit.

The cableway opened on 23 December 1978, built by Habegger Maschinenfabrik of Thun at a cost of CHF 22 million. Its two sections, 3,068 m and 3,003 m horizontally, made it the world's longest passenger gondola lift at 6.2 km. The last run of the 1978 lift was on 31 March 2019; a Garaventa D-Line replacement opened on 14 December 2019.

The name Männlichenbahn Grindelwald is used alongside GGM, the abbreviation painted on the orange cabins. In 2018 the lift carried 855,968 passengers, about two thirds of them in winter, when it feeds the Männlichen/Kleine Scheidegg ski area with its 20 lifts and over 100 km of pistes. In summer the top and middle stations serve as starting points for hikes.

The 2019 Garaventa D-Line lift runs in two sections over 33 pylons, with a change of cable at the Holenstein intermediate station (1624 m). Cabins hold ten people and the ride from Grindelwald-Grund (937 m) to the Männlichen top station (2225 m) takes 19 minutes. From the top station it is a 3-minute walk to the Wengernalp railway at Grindelwald Grund and a 4-minute walk to the Wengen–Männlichen aerial cableway.

The 1978 lift was the world's longest passenger-carrying gondola cableway at 6.239 km, built by Habegger for CHF 22 million. Its 2019 replacement by Garaventa uses 111 ten-person cabins and 33 pylons, and its drive sits in each section's top station. The cabin in the photo carries the letters GGM and the word Männlichen.