Stanserhorn

The journey starts in wood before it moves into openness. A funicular built in 1893 climbs from Stans through pastures and past level crossings, its open wooden coaches creaking the way they have for over a century, reaching the middle station at Kälti in ten minutes.

There, passengers cross into the CabriO, the world's first cable car with a roofless upper deck. A spiral staircase leads to the top level, where the wind arrives directly and the four support masts pass close overhead. The mountain station sits at 1,850 metres, a short walk below the true summit at 1,898. Ten lakes and a hundred kilometres of Alpine ridgeline open from the revolving restaurant, which completes one turn in 43 minutes.

Rangers patrol the summit trail, ready to name a flower or a distant peak on request.