Staff at a Colorado ski resort had to rescue more than 170 skiers and snowboarders from a lift after it broke down mid-ride up a mountain.
174 people using the ski lift at the Winter Park Resort in Winter Park became stuck just after 12 p.m. local time on Saturday, Dec. 21, according to The Guardian and The Colorado Sun.
Resort spokesperson Jen Miller told The Colorado Sun that the machine stopped automatically after it detected a crack in a structural piece of the lift. She referred to the crack as an “operational malfunction.”
Ski patrollers quickly got to work rescuing each person by entering the individual gondolas from the top of the cabin and lowering them down to the ground using a rope with a seat. The passengers’ equipment also was taken out of each cabin and lowered to the ground, Miller told the Associated Press.
“Ski patrol has trained extensively for…
