Bummer

8th January 2009

This poor bloke must have woken up in a cold sweat.. The 48 year old was skiing in Vail in Colorado and trying to get on the Blue Ski basin lift on New Year's Day.

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.

He's probably cursing all the bystanders who took photos and posted them on the Internet...

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