Amazing videos of a quad chairlift being destroyed by a huge avalanche in Saint Francois-Longchamp, France:
Monster avalanche destroys ski lift:
Another video from someone actually ON THE LIFT while it happened:
Avalanche sous nos pieds:
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Huge avalanche destroys running ski lift in France
Started by Andalkar, Mar 03 2012 01:56 PM
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Posted 03 March 2012 - 02:58 PM
Here is another ski lift getting totaled by an avalanche. The fun begins at the 0:50 mark in the video
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=u9vOVYdQofg
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=u9vOVYdQofg
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Posted 04 March 2012 - 12:13 AM
About stopping the lift, of course there are no rules about this kind of thing and who knows if it was intentional or not, but would it not be better to leave the lift running in this specific instance in the hope of getting the people on the lift as high up the slide as possible?
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Posted 07 March 2012 - 07:45 PM
teachme, on 04 March 2012 - 12:13 AM, said:
About stopping the lift, of course there are no rules about this kind of thing and who knows if it was intentional or not, but would it not be better to leave the lift running in this specific instance in the hope of getting the people on the lift as high up the slide as possible?
I'd have to agree. The lift probably stopped on a tower fault anyway.
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Posted 08 March 2012 - 08:01 PM
Yea, keep it running...but maybe stop loading as well! The last loaded chair is only one space out of the terminal when the snow slide is at the first support tower. At the rate of movement, I would guess that the 'avalanche' started over a minute before it got to the portal towers. Good thing the deropement circuit functioned.
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Posted 14 April 2012 - 12:07 PM
http://www.youtube.c...feature=related
The comment said that the lift operator let the chair lift run to make sure passengers were clear of the runout zone. Then she got her colleague at the top station to stop the lift.
The comment said that the lift operator let the chair lift run to make sure passengers were clear of the runout zone. Then she got her colleague at the top station to stop the lift.
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