SHOCK

Chairlift Riders Make Desperate Grab for Dangling Skier

Cell phone footage captured the horrifying moment a woman was left hanging several feet above the slopes.

Horrifying footage circulating on social media shows a woman hanging precariously from a ski lift in California. She appears to have slipped from her seat as she went up the slopes at Bear Mountain Ski Resort. Video uploaded to Instagram shows two other skiers desperately holding onto her as the lift completes its trip up the mountain. Thankfully, the woman arrived safely at the summit, where local press reported a number of resort staff were there to help out. The user behind the terrifying clip, Pierce Mayer, said he did not know the woman but had spoken with her after the ordeal was over. She apparently said she was doing “OK,” and Mayer added it wasn’t immediately clear why she had lost her bearings and almost plummeted onto the slopes. It comes after a 12-year-old girl fell from a lift at nearby Mammoth Mountain. The child’s mother had slipped after the lift took off before she’d had a chance to put the safety bar in place.