Ski patrollers climbed up the lift towers, shimmied to each of the gondola’s cabins and lowered the occupants’ equipment before helping people down one at a time.
WINTER PARK, Colo. — More than 100 skiers and snowboarders on the Winter Park Resort gondola had to be evacuated from the cabins by rope after the lift shut down on Saturday.
A spokesperson for the resort said the gondola had an operation malfunction and stopped, as it is designed to do. The shutdown was first reported after noon, according to the spokesperson. Ski patrol began rescuing people from the cabins about an hour later.
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