NEW YORK (VINnews) — A skier who was on a chairlift at the the Bristol Mountain Ski Resort in Canandaigua somehow fell off her seat and was left dangling by her coat for two minutes before falling 30 feet into a tarpaulin below. The skier had initially tried to jump into the tarp but was caught by her coat and left dangling in the air for nearly two minutes before she dropped into the tarp which had quickly been stretched out by the resort’s ski patrol.
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The 14-year-old girl plunged onto the tarp to cheers from all the onlookers.
The girl’s sister told “Good Morning America” that she had escaped from the incident unharmed.
“She was OK. She wasn’t injured. She was able to stand up and walk away,” said Noah Wilson, a witness. “There was a ton of relief. Everyone was clapping and cheering.”
Daniel Fuller, Bristol Mountain’s general manager, said the resort plans to conduct an internal investigation into the incident in order to review safety procedures.
“I don’t know how she got into that particular situation yet,” Fuller said.
Everyone knows that these chairlifts are dangerous. Safety would dictate seatbelts at that height but then that would slow the flow of ski traffic.