A HEART-STOPPING MOMENT: Boy lets go of father’s arm and falls 25 ft to rescuers arms
A boy was dramatically rescued by strangers after sliding out of a chair lift on a ski slope and left dangling 25 feet in the air.
He was spotted gripping on to his father’s hand below the chair at 2.45pm on Sunday and a crowd quickly gathered to try to catch him. The ski lift at the Hidden Valley Ski & Snowboard Area was suspended during the rescue in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.
Matt Roeser, 42, from Green Bay, was inside the chalet nearby at the familyrun slope.he told Mailonline today: ‘The boy was lucky, rescuers got to him immediately. They figured the best way to save him was for him to let go of his father’s hand and they catch him.
‘He fell into the arms of those below and was not injured. The boy was pretty shaken but more embarrassed. He took a little while to recover but got back on the chair lift and skied the rest of the day.’the incident happened on the same day that a young woman died after falling for a chair lift while skiing in Park City, Utah.the 19-year-old college student has not been identified as police were trying to contact her family.
The teenager’s death comes just ten days after Olympic freestyle skiier Sarah Burke died on the same mountain due to a fall sustained while performing a trick.a source from the resort said that the 19-year-old may have been suffering a medical episode when she fell 30 feet down from the lift at 11.49am.steve Pastorino, the press representative for Canyons resort, said that the woman was not staying at the resort but was simply skiing on the High Meadow trail as a visitor.
He says ski patrol workers arrived within one minute of the fall to give first aid.
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