Horrible!
That is one of the reasons I don’t ski.
That and the fact I live in Florida................
People are dropping like flies at our ski areas this winter. Running into trees, falling into “tree wells”, avalanches, heart attacks, snowmobile accidents, cross country skiing into deep snow and getting trapped, etc.
When I moved to Colorado in ‘76 one the first warnings from locals was: “The mountains don’t care if you live or die.”
What’s worse, dying from asphyxia or dying from a 100 foot fall?
i guess i’d take the fall.
poor guy....
The attendant at the bottom of the lift would have had the task of making sure the seats were down. Instead of getting on a chair with basically no seat, ideally the thing to do would be to jump aside. But perhaps this poor fellow didn’t even notice until it was too late or was not very experienced, IDK. The lift attendants, in my very long experience, range from somewhat on the ball ski bums to foreigners brought in for the season who have never seen snow let alone a chairlift. And anywhere in between.
I am wondering what's going on with that lift, or the people operating it, as I believe it was the same lift in both cases. Normally, the seats on chairlifts are only raised after the lift has been closed. So, either someone (a liftie) screwed up and flipped the seat up when they shouldn't have, or the skier tried to sneak onto a lift that was closing.
Vail is lovely, skiing is great, but danger is always there,
sort of like riding motorcycles
Again? How did he get resuscitated the first time?
I saw a picture of the seat up & down. I can’t believe this hasn’t happened before. Why don’t they paint a big DANGER sign on the underside of the seat or something so people will notice that it isn’t down?
“his chair was left in the upright position”
I’ve never seen a ski lift where the chair folded up, that seems supremely stupid and dangerous.
What did he know about Hillary Clinton.
What is this guy’s connection to Hillary?
Anybody ever ever that movie where those 3 were trapped on a ski lift right after the close of the season?
The operation shut down the lift for the night not realizing 3 late comers had jumped on...the operator left work early.
Pretty brutal...
Some lifty is filing for unemployment today, and some manager has got a huge ulcer. RIP for the skier.
was that gor-tex?
In my younger years I was an avid skier. Best on intermediate runs but could do some blacks. I used to wear a fanny pack.....right up until that one time I tried to stand up to ski off the chairlift. My fanny pack was caught in the back of the chair. Of course I tripped the lift stop and an attendant had to come out of the house and wiggle my pack out of the slats. From then on, I wore it in the front while skiing. Funny then and funny now.
I cannot imagine how this happened, but it’s been a long time since I skied and the chairs must be different than they were back then.