Oh, hell no.....

[SkiNurse]

I hate wind.....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5236061/Skiers-stuck-swinging-chairlift-Austrian-resort.html

(I couldn't embed the video.....)

 

[surfsnowgirl]

Omg how terrifying.

One of my mountains in Vermont is known for wind. In fact there was an incident on Christmas when everyone on the chair near that summit had to be evacuated off the chair.

If it's remotely windy I won't take the chair to the summit and will ski of the 3/4 or 1/2 up chairs.

Wind terrifies me.

 

[Jenny]

O. M. G. I'd never get on a lift again, assuming I didn't just die from fear right then.

 

[KevinF]

O. M. G. I'd never get on a lift again, assuming I didn't just die from fear right then.

I'd never leave home again...

 

[scott43]

I'm not surprised it's in Austria...

 

[graham418]

I hope they had the bar down!

 

[crgildart]

I hope they had the bar down!

Not all lifts at older places have bars. I don't see any on the backs of those chairs..

 

[Pat AKA mustski]

That is terrifying!

 

[scott43]

There's a bar..you can see the footrest..more importantly, are they both on one side of the chair??

 

[Pat AKA mustski]

There's a bar..you can see the footrest..more importantly, are they both on one side of the chair??

A yes... the footrest. A skier was rescued today at Mammoth after being caught hanging upside down off the chair, caught on the footrest! They used a net for the rescue. Apparently the toughest part was the skier freeing herself from the footrest. She was alone on the chair!
https://www.google.com/amp/ktla.com...mmoth-mountain-chairlift-drops-to-safety/amp/

 

[Jim McDonald]

Looks like lifts over at Warth/Shrocken; damn scarifying winds, foreshore!

 

[scott43]

A yes... the footrest. A skier was rescued today at Mammoth after being caught hanging upside down off the chair, caught on the footrest! They used a net for the rescue. Apparently the toughest part was the skier freeing herself from the footrest. She was alone on the chair!
https://www.google.com/amp/ktla.com...mmoth-mountain-chairlift-drops-to-safety/amp/

Yeah it's funny, after doing some roped climbing, I realized that things you think are easy from when you were 12, are not easy anymore! Holding someone against a fall showed me that there's no way you're picking someone up and moving them around easily. It's tough to extricate yourself from unfortunate situations.