Horrified ski resort staff discover useless vacationer in a gondola when it arrives at mountain summit in France
Ski resort workers in France were left horrified upon discovering a dead tourist in a gondola after it arrived at a mountain summit.
A 53-year-old man was believed to have suffered a cardiac arrest after boarding the lift at the Val Cenis ski resort in Savoie, alone.
The gondola operator discovered the man’s body on the afternoon of January 6 before two ski patrollers attempted to resuscitate him using a defibrillator.
Emergency services rushed to the scene, alongside local police, but despite their best efforts to save him, he was pronounced dead at the scene.
On the same day, another fatal accident occurred at the Les Menuires resort, also located in Savoie.
A Spanish skier was found unconscious against a rock in an off-piste area.
It comes just two weeks after six people, including a child, were left injured after a cable car slammed into a station barrier while approaching a mountain summit ‘too quickly’ in Italy.
Around one hundred people were also left stranded following the incident, which took place at the Macugnaga cable car, in the Verbano-Cusio-Ossola region of Piedmont.
A 53-year-old man was believed to have suffered a cardiac arrest after boarding the lift at the Val Cenis ski resort in Savoie (pictured), alone
Local media reported that the cable car arrived at the station, located over 9,000ft in the air, too quickly.
The surrounding ski slopes were closed, and the ski lift was halted following the incident.
Those stranded were evacuated by the National Alpine Rescue Corpsvia two firefighter helicopters.
The six injured were immediately treated by on-site medics and were later transported to a local hospital via air ambulance.
And on December 28, a five-year-old boy died after becoming trapped inside a moving ski escalator in front of his family.
Hinata Goto’s right arm was left stuck inside the travelator for 40 minutes as rescuers were forced to completely dismantle the machine, as the child slowly lost consciousness.
Goto had been out skiing with his family at the Asarigawa Onsen Ski Resort in Otaru – located in Japan‘s ski capital of Hokkaido – when he attempted to step on the escalator.
The young boy then fell near the exit of the machine as his right arm became trapped in the escalator belt’s turning section, police said.
The machine continued to rotate for several seconds until Goto’s distraught mother managed to slam the emergency stop button.
Emergency services raced to the scene, and firefighters attempted to release him from the belt at around 10am.
They were forced to dismantle an entire section of the escalator to finally release the kindergarten student who had fallen unconscious during the desperate rescue attempt.
Once released, Goto was rushed to the hospital, where he was tragically pronounced dead a short time later.
