Me and Guano took this lift a lot over the Easter holiday - glad it did not break down
on us.
------------
Canadian ski gondola breakdown strands 75 Page 1/2
LAKE LOUISE, Alberta, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- A breakdown of a gondola system at a ski
resort in Lake Louise, Alberta, stranded 75 people for as long as five hours in
frigid temperatures.
Rick Werner, operations manager at the resort in Banff National Park, said a
safety switch on the Grizzly Express gondola tripped at about 3 p.m. Sunday.
It took eight rescue teams until nearly 9 p.m. to get everyone down and take
them off the mountain by snowmobile or snow cat, the Canadian Broadcasting
Corp., reported. Crews used a pulley device to reach the cable cars and then
lowered people in harnesses to the ground.
It stranded about 75 children and adults along the resort's longest lift, which
stretches 9,500 feet from the resort's base to a mountaintop.
Temperatures had dipped to 21 degrees by early evening.
The resort promised a full investigation into the shutdown.
Posts
