A two-hour 2,024-metre (6,640-feet) climb from Jammu airport, the hilltop tourist destination in Udhampur district has a new attraction — a world-class ropeway inaugurated in October that connects Sanget to Patnitop. Skyview Patnitop is the largest Indo-French collaboration in mountain infrastructure development and India’s highest ropeway with over 65- metre ground clearance and the longest span of 849 metres between eight towers.
The ropeway also features 2.8 km of inclined destination covered by the cable car from the upper terminal to the lower terminal. The ropeway, which can transport 6,400 people in eight operating hours, at peak capacity, is built on a PPP model by Empyrean Skyview Projects Pvt Ltd (ESPPL), a subsidiary of Delhi and Srinagar-based FIL industries along with french cable car manufacturer POMA and the Union Territory of J&K.
In collaboration with Flying Fox, Skyview Patnitop features Asia’s longest zig-zag zipline measuring 580 metres. It starts at an altitude of 1,371 metres and ends at 1,344 metres above sea level through 9 wires & 10 poles.
