Funitel

[1] It differs from a standard gondola lift through the use of two arms attached to two parallel overhead cables, providing more stability in high winds.

This technology was developed by the French engineering company Denis Creissels SA and was manufactured by Poma in the 1980s.

Jan Kunczynski, the owner of Yan, actually claimed to have invented the funitel lift with reference to US Patent 4,848,241.

[3] The Yan "QMC" differed, however, from other funitels in having a quad-monocable design with vertically aligned drive sheaves.

[4] The QMC suffered from various design flaws including the famously unsafe Yan cable grips[5] and was shut down by California safety inspectors in 1996 and dismantled over the course of the next few years.

[6] A similar system was built in 1993, in Montmorency Falls Park, Canada, by the French and Canadian subsidiaries of Doppelmayr.