Panic and relief unfolded at Colorado's Winter Park Resort when a ski lift malfunction stranded over 170 people for five hours. A crack in the lift's support structure triggered an automatic shutdown, prompting a daring rescue operation. Rescuers slowly lowered each individual to safety, while passengers recounted their experience of a tense but ultimately successful ordeal.
More than 170 people were rescued from dangling gondolas at a Colorado ski resort after being trapped for hours due to a malfunction. A crack detected in a metal support structure prompted one of the lifts at Winter Park Resort outside of Denver to automatically shut down Saturday afternoon for safety precautions, according to media reports. It then took rescuers five hours to lower 174 people to the ground, a resort spokesperson told KDVR.
'We were going up to do our first run, my wife and I, and we stopped. Stopped for about 15 minutes and we started kind of thinking, maybe it’s unusual,' skier Aleksey Dmitriyev said to the station. 'I called the line, and the line saying if it’s less than 20 minutes don’t worry, call us back… Then we waited a bit longer and we started seeing ski patrol coming down and talking to people from the ground to the cabin, like saying how many of you in the cabin, all that.' 'Everybody was pretty calm, ski patrol was calm and professional and assured us,' he added. 'It was kind of interesting because he kind of knew what he was doing, but we were a little bit concerned.' 11 INDIAN CITIZENS DEAD IN GEORGIAN SKI RESORT ACCIDENT, EMBASSY SAYS 'We skied a few runs after that, we used a different lift, of course, and it was still an OK day but once-in-a-lifetime experience,' Dmitriyev also told KDVR. Dmitriyev captured video showing a rescuer lowering himself into his stranded gondola’s cabin. 'We are going to send a seat up, we are each going to get in a seat individually and slowly lower everyone down,' the man says. FLASHBACK: SNOWBOARDER SPENDS 15 HOURS TRAPPED IN CALIFORNIA SKI RESORT GONDOLA The footage then shows multiple people – including a child – being brought down to safety. Winter Park Resort said the lift remained closed Sunday for repairs and inspections and the gondola manufacturer was on-site, according to KDV
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