When Chairlifts Attack!
By Adam Soldinger • Jan 6th, 2009 • Category: Features, Lead Story, News, The WireThis news comes from my good friend Rick Jacobs and the folks over at The Smoking Gun. It concerns a skier in Vail today who suffered from a different kind of exposure to the elements…
Skier Suffers Exposure
Man left dangling upside down, pantsless after Vail lift mishap
JANUARY 6 – In a bizarre incident that will surely lead to litigation (or an out-of-court settlement), a skier at Colorado’s ritzy Vail resort was left dangling upside down and pantsless from a chairlift last Thursday morning. The January 1 mishap apparently occurred after the male skier, 48, and a child boarded a high-speed lift in Vail’s Blue Sky Basin. It appears that the chairlift’s fold-down seat was somehow not in the lowered position, which caused the man to partially fall through the resulting gap. His right ski got jammed in the ascending chairlift, and that kept him upended since his boot never dislodged from its binding…(more)
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I can only imagine what the front view looked like in that chilly weather.