After several squeaks, the rusty wheel was finally wrenched from the tarnished white pole that once stood proudly on the mountainside. The reason? It hasn't been in use for years -- because there was no more snow.
After several squeaks, the rusty wheel was finally wrenched from the tarnished white pole that once stood proudly on the mountainside.
"The lack of snow meant that the last time it ran was about 15 years ago and for just one weekend. Since then, it has not been used again," Beauzon said of his village's ski lift.OLIVIER CHASSIGNOLE/AFP via Getty Images "Everybody could win a prize, all you had to do was get to the bottom, regardless of how," Beauzon said.
"Inside the pylon, we found that it was much more reinforced than we expected," said Olivier Bustillo, manager of environmental group Mountain Wilderness, tasked with breaking down the ski lift.The cost of the lift dismantlement is said to be 20,000 euros.It took the team of roughly 20 workers two days to finish dismantling the entire ski lift system -- the group has already dismantled around 10 similar ski lift systems in France, according to Bustillo.
France could also be facing a much more challenging future as temperatures are expected to rise by 3.8 C by 2100, and even 6.7 in the worst-case scenario, according to a study published by researchers from the French national meteorological service Météo France in October.
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