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Snowlifter.

A ducted-fan eVTOL for the ICAO concept programme, built for the mountain — eight shrouded rotors, a glass cabin and skis instead of wheels, so the landing site can be the slope itself.

About the project

Land where the snow is.

Mountain rescue and mountain access run on helicopters, and helicopters are the wrong shape for the job in two ways: an exposed main rotor is dangerous on a crowded piste, and a wheeled skid wants a prepared surface.

Snowlifter answers both. The rotors are ducted — shrouded discs on outriggers, which shields the blade tips from people and terrain and buys static thrust in thin, cold air. The gear is a set of skis, so the aircraft can settle on unprepared snow and take off from where the casualty actually is, not from where a pad has been built.

Two variants carry the same airframe: a medevac fit with a stretcher bay and the red cross on the flank, and a passenger fit for lift access and ski touring — the mountain’s own vehicle rather than a machine borrowed from the valley.

Renders

On the mountain.

Five frames across both variants — resort, off-piste, and the high alpine.

Snowlifter eVTOL in medevac configuration above an alpine ski resort — **Medevac** Inbound over the resort with the red cross on the flank — the case the concept was built for.

Snowlifter eVTOL carrying skiers over an off-piste slope — **Ski access** The passenger fit, cabin full, dropping onto an untracked face.

Close view of the Snowlifter cabin, canopy and ski landing gear — **Close** Canopy, door cut and the ski gear planted in soft snow.

Snowlifter eVTOL on a piste with a skier passing — **Ground clearance** Shrouded discs at head height beside a skier — the argument for ducting, in one frame.

Snowlifter eVTOL flying over high alpine peaks — **Above the ridge** Crossing the high ground with the cabin lit and the glacier below.

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