More than 170 skiers and snowboarders had to be rescued after a crack appeared in part of the structure at a ski lift in Colorado, officials said.
The 174 passengers on the gondola lift at Winter Park Resort, about 110 miles west of Denver, had to be carefully lowered to the ground by ski patrol on Saturday, resort spokeswoman Jen Miller said. said. statement obtained By CNN.
A video shared by Joe M on social media shows him getting off the carousel with a rope before being given a $10 voucher for his trouble.
“Here I am! Thank you for the $10 coupon they gave me at the end of the unexpected rappel. You'd think after 4 hours you'd get about as much as a beer,” he wrote to X. Ta.
Another angle, taken by Edward Blanche, shows another skier being carefully lowered to the ground by a patrol and a rope.
Miller said the lift stopped automatically in mid-air after a machine detected cracks in the structure shortly after 12pm local time.
The entire evacuation process took about five hours, she added.
Fortunately, no injuries were reported.
The equipment manufacturer, state regulators and resort officials are investigating the cause of the structural damage, and several other elevators at the park remain open.
