Italy's 'coffin gondolas': the most unique chairlift in the world

Tim the Yowie Man uncovers the unique and historic coffin lift, which takes you up to the Forcella Sassolungo from Passo Sella in Italy.

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00:00If this isn't the weirdest cable car in the world, then I don't know what is.

00:07Where's your favourite alpine chairlift?

00:10Is it at Mount Buller?

00:12Perhaps Sredbo?

00:14Even Periscia?

00:15Well maybe, like me, it's overseas.

00:22My favourite is the Sassolunga from Passo Sella chairlift in Italy, where the lift attendant

00:28literally pushes you inside a coffin-like contraption where you stand squashed against

00:34your travelling companion for the next 10 minutes.

00:41Now if you don't know them at the start of the trip, I can guarantee by the time you

00:45are light at the top station, you certainly will.

00:48Despite its odd appearance, the unique experience is more than worth it, if not just for the

00:54extensive views of the majestic Dolomites.

00:59Welcome to the weirdest cable car possibly in the world, here at Passo Sella in the Dolomites

01:04in Italy.

01:05We've just got on, down there, you literally get pushed in with two people in a little

01:10phone box here, or it's smaller than a phone box, it keeps moving, you get pushed in, and

01:15then you're in these little phone booths.

01:16You can see some ahead there, I'm not sure what number we're in, you can see 61-6 there,

01:21and we're going right to the top between those two cliffs.

01:26But I've seen some strange cable cars around the world, but this has to take the cake.

01:31I don't know if it's a TARDIS, or a phone booth, or whatever, but what I do know is,

01:38it has to be the weirdest in the world.

01:41Ciao!