Vallée Blanche Aerial Tramway, Gondola lift in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, France.

The Vallée Blanche Aerial Tramway (Télécabine Panoramic Mont-Blanc) is a two-cable circulating gondola lift linking the Aiguille du Midi station at 3,779 m to Pointe Helbronner at 3,466 m over 5,093 m. Twelve groups of three small cabins, each with dark tinted windows and a red lower panel marked "chamonix", travel on fixed carrying ropes and a 10,200 m haul rope. A mid-station at Gros Rognon (3,536 m) bends the line about 8° right.

Conceived by engineer Dino Lora Totino and built by the Italian firm Agudio, the cable car opened at the end of 1957 after four years of work, linking the Aiguille du Midi with Pointe Helbronner over 5 km. Because the glacier could not carry a tower, the builders strung three 315 m steel cables between the Grand and Petit Flambeau rocks as a suspended support. It was overhauled in 1995 and received new cabins in 1997.

The cabins carry the name "Chamonix" with "MONT-BLANC" and "PLAN DE L'AIGUILLE" beneath it, a reminder that the French section runs from Chamonix via Plan des Aiguilles to the Aiguille du Midi. In summer the route links with the Skyway Monte Bianco down to Entrèves, letting travellers cross the Alps by cable car alone.

The crossing takes 30 to 35 minutes including five short stops, and capacity is only 220 people per hour, so booking is required at least in high season. Cabins slow to 2 m/s at the Gros Rognon angle station and the suspended support. The line links the Aiguille du Midi station at 3,779 m with Pointe Helbronner at 3,466 m.

Between the Grand and Petit Flambeau rocks, three steel cables about 315 m long serve as a suspended support, chosen because the glacier cannot carry a tower; their anchorages differ in height by 136 m and the cables run at roughly 23° to the line, leaving about 20 m of clearance above the snow.