More than 170 people were rescued from the dangling gondola in A Colorado Ski Resort After being trapped for hours due to a malfunction.
A crack discovered in a metal support structure prompted one of the elevators at the Winter Park Resort outside Denver to automatically shut down Saturday afternoon for safety precautions, according to media reports. A resort spokesman said it took rescuers five hours to lower 174 people to the ground KDVR said.
Skater Alexei Dmitriev told the station: “We were going up to do the first run, my wife and I, and we stopped. We stopped for about 15 minutes and started thinking, ‘Maybe this is unusual.’” “I called the line, and the line said if it's less than 20 minutes, don't worry, call us back…and then we waited a little longer and we started seeing the ski patrol come down and talk to people from the floor to the cabin, like saying how many of you are in the cabin, “All of it.”
“Everyone was very calm,” The ski patrol was quiet “It was interesting because he knew what he was doing, but we were a bit worried,” he added.
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A stranded gondola rider is lowered to safety at Winter Park Resort in Colorado on Saturday, December 21.
“we I skated a few runs Then, of course, we used a different elevator, and it was still a good day but a once-in-a-lifetime experience,” Dmitriev told KDVR.
Dmitriev captured a video showing a rescuer lowering himself into the cabin of the stranded gondola.
“We'll send a chair up,” the man says, “and we'll each sit on a bench at a time and slowly bring everyone down.”
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It took five hours to rescue all passengers aboard a stalled gondola Saturday at Winter Park Resort in Colorado. (Alexey Dmitriev)
The footage then shows several people – including a child – being lowered to safety.
The Winter Park Resort said the lift remained closed Sunday for repairs and inspection, and the gondola manufacturer was on site, according to KDVR.
Skiers at Winter Park Resort in Winter Park, Colorado, in March 2017. (Andy Cross/The Denver Post via Getty Images)
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The station added that as of late Sunday, a new part had been installed and tests were being conducted in preparation for reopening the elevator.
