Kid falls 45' from a chairlift

[Nick]

holy shit



Video says:

I was skiing when my friend gets off balance and ends up hanging from the chair. He did not have the security bar down. He hung from about Pole 8 to 21, and at 21 he fell. This was on a lift that averages 37ft above the ground, But pole 21 was the 3rd highest strech at about 45ft high, 19 being the highest. He suffered from injuries including: concussion, skull fracture, collapsed lung, and a lacerated liver.

He had to be helicoptered out to a local hospital.

 

[emmaurice2]

Glad the kid lived, albeit with some terrible injuries.

That was horrifying. Not sure that helped my fear of slipping off of lift chairs.

 

[Nick]

I wonder what the details are behind it. I'm betting they were messing around on the lift before that happened. Apparently he hung on for a long time - somewhere in the comments it said from Tower 8 to Tower 21 or something like that.

 

[BenedictGomez]

Glad the kid lived, albeit with some terrible injuries.

Assuming this just happened, and with those injuries, he may not be out of the woods just yet.

Also, that's assuming this is real to begin with.

 

[AdironRider]

Safety meeting gone horribly wrong?

 

[drjeff]

Shall we revisit the "Do you close the safety bar" thread?

Hope he comes through the injuries OK, those are some pretty serious ones for sure

 

[Hawkshot99]

A young girl fell off the chair at Jiminy Peak this past weekend. I believe she broke her femur.

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[bigbog]

Glad the kid lived, albeit with some terrible injuries.

That was horrifying. Not sure that helped my fear of slipping off of lift chairs.

+1
When the CVA chairlift-nobar testosterones are among those in line @SL I find it relaxing to avoid being chair-mates....

 

[ALLSKIING]

That was ugly....Hope he recovers.

 

[legalskier]

Should this go in the wtf thread?

.....or in this section? Or both?

 

[drjeff]

How about this thread?

http://forums.alpinezone.com/showthread.php/118951-Kid-falls-45-from-a-chairlift

Nick, and his INCREDIBLE rapid ski related post responses got that up 2 days ago! Already became "page 2" material!

 

[Nick]

Re: Should this go in the wtf thread?

When I saw that video it had 2300 views. Now its up to 1.5m 8)

 

[D-2.5-GT]

It was shown on Yahoo's front page this morning.

 

[Skimaine]

+1
When the CVA chairlift-nobar testosterones are among those in line @SL I find it relaxing to avoid being chair-mates....

Indeed. Mrs Skimaine suffered through this last weekend. Her shoulder is quite sore and she could not reach up to pull the bar down. Next time - thanks but no thanks.

 

[Morwax]

Kid was trying to throw a snowball with the safety bar up. Testing Darwinism was going to be his next trick but he never got that far as he was taken out by that pesky gravity thing