To anyone who thinks this one is scary, try going to Sochi’s Rosa Peak… you’ll be clenching your cheeks on the first stretch up the mountain, it is far gnarlier than this. This one is just beautiful.
This chair is not used for going up and down the "mountain" - this is in the Espace Killy skiing area, with multiple valleys and 186 miles of groomed runs. The chair is for getting quickly from one valley to another and back again, so you can ski back to your resort at the end of the day instead of getting stuck in the wrong valley and having to pay for an expensive taxi ride.
Have done that there. had to ski and traverse mountain sides on multiple short poma lifts because of bad weather and ended up in the wrong valley in a mountain restaurant that was closing for the night .... had to ski down the wrong valley with the restaurant owner as guide and then thank him and take a train and a bus back to base .... I was back home around 23:00hrs after a very long days skiing and walking. Not really my fault in fact as the weather forecast was for good clear skies but turned out to be wrong and changed within minutes. That was an expensive day out too as the buses and trains know they've got you but the short and curlys.
It is at the extreme end of Val D'Isere. It connects Le Fornet with Solaise. If you get stuck in Le Fornet you ski down to the Le Fornet cable and get the free shuttle back to Val D'Isere. You would only face a taxi ride if you ended up in Tignes and needed to get back to Val D'Isere (or vice versa).
Park City has the same thing to get to the Canyons resort side of the mountain. It's pretty cool because that side is all Blacks so its way less crowded and much better snow.
When I first went on this, my mates told me we we're getting off at the top, so i started to put the safety bar up, only to realise we we're going over a hill with a huge drop on the other side! Was not nice!
The “scariest” ones I’ve been on are similar to this where you come over a ridge and there’s a huge drop or valley and you go from 20 ft off the ground to 50-100 ft off the ground quickly. Weird feeling coming over those for the first time.
This can be classified as scary if you are tempted to jump off the chair at the summit as it is jumping height (about 2 m max). There are always tracks of skiers who have done it who then have an off piste choice to ski back into Solaise or Le Fornet.
@@pearceclayton8498 I've done that, just make sure you jump just before the summit when still going up, as this will press you into the mountain and makes sure you don't overshoot.
You haven't seen a scary lift until you've been on a miserably slow old two seater with a pole in the middle, an icy seat, no arm rests, and no safety bar during 90mph winds over a 200ft drop.
When I was a kid I rode lifts like that many times. Once, my sister messed up and got on my side of the center bar and had to ride all the way up sitting on my lap. It was very foggy so we couldn’t see the ground or how far remained to go, and it was our first time at that ski area. I was trying not to drop her, which was difficult since she was older and bigger than me! Somehow we survived, and she has never heard the end of it.
A few years ago, we had family move out to east-central Arizona. There's a quite good ski area out there run by the Apache, and one of their lifts is a wood-slat two-seater that goes about 200 feet in the air (tribe _really_ dislikes big investments). And, since it's big sky country, the winds get horrible. Haven't experienced the worst of it, but you'd go out there in the morning on a powder day and the ones that were parked at the top would have 3ft long horizontal ice crystals on them from the winds.
Idk about scary, but I've spent my whole life riding uphill on chairs, and the last few years I've worked maintenance for my local slope and I still can't get over how weird it feels riding downhill on the chair
Yeah did it about 20 years ago snowboarding with 3 mates, we got chased by the lift operator at the bottom. He didn’t catch us! We did on the last day incase we did get caught and they took our lift pass away ....I still remember it today ....such good untouched powder. warning it’s a longer drop than you think!
Wow, I remember that. My father told me that before that new chairlift there was an old 2 places chairlift even higher and when the wind blew it felt that the wire was going to tear up. I went there 8 years ago and spent of the greatest weeks of my life, that resort is absolutely amazing
I was on this a few days ago. It's a pretty breathtaking view as you come over the top (I came first from tignes direction) but I didn't find it any more scary than any other lift with a big drop underneath. Awesome powder up there though.
You do get a nice feeling in your stomach when you go over the peak of the mountain for the first time, like you are dropping over the edge. Its not what I would call scary, but is breath taking and makes for an interesting ride!
Squaw Creek at Squaw Valley was the scariest lift I've ever been on. Really high up, the support poles were leaning at like 70 degrees, and the tiny safety bar had little reassurance. At least you had a good solid safety bar haha
John Macfarlane That's the old Schindlergratbahn, unfortunately has been since 2019 replaced by a shitty modern piece of scrap 10-passenger gondola lift. I am extremely pissed at Doppelmayr and Arlberger Bergbahnen for what they did to it and I hope to bomb the shitty modern gondola along with all Post-2014 10-passenger pieces of crap gondola lifts that have no other place to go but hell since that's where they f*cking belong as they are rammed with tech, they are boring as they have no mechanical differences, they're ugly and too mainstream and city-like, and they raise toxic expectations and give people stupid reasons to complain, as do they encourage the authoritarian c*nts to force modernization on all ski resorts. 10-passenger modern gondola lifts can burn in hell for all I freaking care. Old ropeways are 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 times better than modern piles of scrap.
Before they put the high speed chair in you could get to the top and drop out of the chair. You then on the ridge for skiing or riding down between the crags. Old chair was a lot slower
Now, I have never skied there, but honestly it doesn't look scary at all !!! Scariest chairlift I was ever on had to be the old Olympic chair at Lake Louise in Alberta Canada. It was a double chair, built in 1966, and was fast even by todays standards. But what made it the best (or worst) was the extreme distances between towers, and its height. If you were between towers, and the lift stopped, you were in for one wild ride!!!
The ski lift that malfunctioned and the seats got jammed at the carousel and was throwing people onto the ground was the scariest ski lift I've seen. A huge pile of people tangled in the detached seats and skis just kept getting bigger and bigger . The lucky few jumped 6ft to the ground to avoid the pileup.
@@mikosoft I've never been on one . Probably is a switch in the control panel or on a post outside, like emergency shut-off switches at gas stations in the U.S.
@@jimwednt1229 I noticed there are usually several safety stop buttons on the pillars (especially on the surface lifts), there's also a bar on the top and bottom station and a couple of safety stop buttons as well, usually pretty well marked in red.
The Olympic T-bar at Perisher Valley can beat that. It has a dog-leg and it's best to get on it by yourself. If you get on the right side, with a beginner on the left side, and they push you to the right, you are over the edge whether you like it or not.
There's not enough space for a detachable midway station without a ton of excavation (detachable midway stations are twice as long as the end stations because you have the decelleration/accereration equipment laid end to end instead of bent in a U shape) and they don't want to patrol the terrain under the lift. This lift is just used to get people between two different areas.
I call it the "ooh" lift. We went over the top and all went "ooooh!" at the beautiful view of the mountains. Then we heard the following chair give a chorus of "oooooh!" too!
Pretty scary. But the Paradise chair at Louise is pretty scary too when you realize how far you are going to go without a tower and how high up you will be on a Yan lift.
When we go over this lift we always sing frank Sinatra’s “start spreading the news” at the opposing lifts and it’s surprising how many sing the next line back!
As a seasonaire boarder quite a while ago, it was the done thing to lift up the bar and jump off the lift at the peak. You then had to race down the mountain or the pistairs would take your lift pass off you. Was pretty exhilarating doing it, surprised i didnt break my ankles... On landing the top was a bit icy... Cheers Phil. Who made me do it, lifetime of memories from that place.
Done that on skis. It is about a 2m drop or less (depending on snow depth). Had a soft landing when I did it. Quite rocky on the Le Fornet side, relatively easy on the Solaise side. Never got chased in those days (1996)
I rode that chairlift in the mid-80s when it didn’t even have a safety bar. I was clinging for dear life to the back of the seat as I went over that ridge line
The summit Poma at Lake Louise is far scarier. Mostly because you have to ride a surface lift up a slope that's pretty steep. There are places on the lift you don't want to fall off. They actually have ropes on the side because otherwise you probably can't stop yourself from sliding all the way down.
Heigjt never really bothered me. The sketch part is the chair itself. I can remember thia old wooden lift when I was a kid in the 80s. That used to scare me
I mean... you have to quantify "experienced", cos I don t consider myself experienced at all... I am just a level 4/5 out of 7, but this is just beautiful and not scarier than others 😅
The scariest thing?? Seriously?)) In Russia, in the Caucasus, ordinary people ride thousands of them every day, I rest in such places every year. and you're making a pathos here... cowards
@rmizeelectric first of all, if you are going to quote me, do it correctly. secondly, there is no way to even tell if there is a place to get off at the top of the lift because the video doesn't show the top of the lift. It shows the bottom of the lift, or i guess what you believe to be the top of the lift. no shit it is a two way lift... the chairs have to go in a fucking circle so that they can get back to the bottom. you don't have to get off at the top of the lift if you don't want to.
@mrbuckethead18 you should open your eyes while you are skiing!!! especially if you do it every day! or maybe while you are watching YT vids!!! hahaha it is VERY CLEAR that there is nowhere to get off the lift at the top. please watch again... and what is your excuse for all the other people riding up from the other side? IT'S OBVIOUSLY A 2-WAY LIFT!!!!! wow........ "trust me i ski everyday"- hahahahahahahahahaha
Well it appears to go down towards the station either ways so this chairlift is not used to go up, just to cross from one side of the mountain to the other
Last week I was skiing from Montgenèvre/Claviere in France back to the Italian side of Via Lattea. Due to lack of snow, we had to detach our skis and sit with them in our lap in the lift going all the way down to the Cesana. That was scary as hell.
Never skiied there. Went to Tignes in 2003 which was incredible. Just came back from a week in Plagne 1800. Would love to do Val-d'Isère one time and Les Arcs too. Both Espace Killy and Paradiski are amazing areas, pretty near to each other. Really snow sure too which matters in these times!
Dude if you're scared on the up & over, as the regulars call it, you are a WIMP... Try and have fun on it next time, when you've got to the second pylon at the top, start yelling as though it just stopped. It doesn't always work but when the people behind you're get scared and it shows, it's totally worth it. :D
@mrbuckethead18 0:43... watch carefully over the next few seconds. if you look REALLY carefully you can see the top of the lift. you know the part where it stops going up and goes back down? that's the top! sorry about that misquote - "trust me i ski everyday" should have read "trust me i ski NEARLY everyday." sorry about that. you are clueless man. seriously...
@rmizeelectric there was a lot more people riding up the mountain, like you are supposed to do. and the fact that when the person filming is riding down the mountain on the lift it is a much longer stretch than when he is riding up the mountain on the lift. trust me, i ski nearly everyday.
@mrbuckethead18 wrong... so wrong. this lift is definitely meant top be ridden up and over the mountain, and down the other side. You know at the top where no one got off... what was it you saw there that told you it was not supposed to be ridden down the other side of the mountain?
There is a chairlift in the Vars/Risoul area where you cross a valley and at its highest point you are probably at least 400 feet above the snow! Fall from there and you aren't pulling yourself out of a snowdrift and walking away!!!
@taylorlutz the lift isn't meant to be ridden down the mountain. the person is just riding back down to the base of the lift. the chairs don't just stay at the top of the mountain... they have to go in a circle and come back down.
Seriously ... I was sitting on worse lifts with NO safety bars when I was 7 (WAY back in the early 70's) all over southern BC (Whistler before Blackcomb ever existed, Manning Park ect ect) You got me all excited for nothing.
KT22 or Siberia at Squaw Valley. Especially in the 70s when their maintenance sucked. The Squaw Death Eggs. Locals know what I'm talking about. All replaced.
Well, in fact there's nothing so scary about this chairlift. Maybe for those British or US tourists who go to ski three times a year, when everything that lifts you above 5 meters is scary...
You have fallen for the American boastfullness trap! You have all admitted that most US resort have a lift that is scarier becuause it was beyond its safe working life, poorly designedor not properly maintained....etc I think i will stick with Europe or Canada.....
Camera doesn't do it justice. I went over it last weekend and the people in front were screaming. I'm not afraid of heights but uneasy doesn't come close to how I felt the first time!
who designed this chair?? chairlifts are supposed to take you up a hill, not up, over, and back down again. i mean wouldn't it make more sense to drop people off at the top of that crest?
@taylorlutz they have built it so that you can get to the other side of the mountain. they surely would have built an top station if the geographic structure would have allowed it.
@darksinthe all you can do is repost my comments then make another minecraft video i dont understand your logic its like you want somone to hit you like man you know once youve commented on my post i was gonna get mad so why do u do it. all im saying is you should watching the way you talk to peolpe cuz one day somone will literally destroy your well being.
Big Red on Red Mountain in Rossland BC. It's probably gone by now but it was an old chair in the he 80's, no safety bars and in spots would be 300 feet off the ground.....or maybe even more!!! I loved it, but not everybody did!! 🤣🤣🤣
Why? Its obviously an access lift to two areas on the mountain that skiers travel back and forth between. So you could either build two chairlifts on each side of the crest or just have one going the entire length as shown. I would say the one chairlift would be far more economical.
@xXGEN3000KBMXx if he failed hard at spelling it wrong, that would mean he spelled it right. if he failed hard at spelling it right that means he spelled it wrong. so if he spelled it scareeyest, he didnt fail at spelling it wrong, he just failed at spelling it.
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scary.... more like beautiful.
easy to say when you're not riding it lol
@@DanielS-zq2rr i had worst there was a 50 meters drops under us for like
and the lift was broken for 10 minutes
To anyone who thinks this one is scary, try going to Sochi’s Rosa Peak… you’ll be clenching your cheeks on the first stretch up the mountain, it is far gnarlier than this. This one is just beautiful.
And scary
You have to ride it, 😫
This chair is not used for going up and down the "mountain" - this is in the Espace Killy skiing area, with multiple valleys and 186 miles of groomed runs. The chair is for getting quickly from one valley to another and back again, so you can ski back to your resort at the end of the day instead of getting stuck in the wrong valley and having to pay for an expensive taxi ride.
Have done that there. had to ski and traverse mountain sides on multiple short poma lifts because of bad weather and ended up in the wrong valley in a mountain restaurant that was closing for the night .... had to ski down the wrong valley with the restaurant owner as guide and then thank him and take a train and a bus back to base .... I was back home around 23:00hrs after a very long days skiing and walking.
Not really my fault in fact as the weather forecast was for good clear skies but turned out to be wrong and changed within minutes. That was an expensive day out too as the buses and trains know they've got you but the short and curlys.
Cyur mum bud
@@kaidensomers1347 sorry. Is that slang for something ? Don't understand.
It is at the extreme end of Val D'Isere. It connects Le Fornet with Solaise. If you get stuck in Le Fornet you ski down to the Le Fornet cable and get the free shuttle back to Val D'Isere. You would only face a taxi ride if you ended up in Tignes and needed to get back to Val D'Isere (or vice versa).
Park City has the same thing to get to the Canyons resort side of the mountain. It's pretty cool because that side is all Blacks so its way less crowded and much better snow.
When I first went on this, my mates told me we we're getting off at the top, so i started to put the safety bar up, only to realise we we're going over a hill with a huge drop on the other side! Was not nice!
Would have been a hell of a ride down!
Did you fall or just panic a bit?
@@mrtortoise3766 if he fell he probably would’ve included that in the story.
@Judy laughed cuz i cracked a joke yea im assuming lebron was being sarcastic
Get better mates
The scariest part is him having his phone out
It could be a go pro attached to his helmet
@@ellaschellenberger6750 that’s even scarier think about Like Micheal Schumacher.
@@Turbulencemode true true
Oh shut up you’re just sitting
That ain't no camera quality for a 2010 smartphone.
What a beautiful view.
The “scariest” ones I’ve been on are similar to this where you come over a ridge and there’s a huge drop or valley and you go from 20 ft off the ground to 50-100 ft off the ground quickly. Weird feeling coming over those for the first time.
There's a chair at Whistler that's like that
This can be classified as scary if you are tempted to jump off the chair at the summit as it is jumping height (about 2 m max). There are always tracks of skiers who have done it who then have an off piste choice to ski back into Solaise or Le Fornet.
if you find this scary dont try jumping out a plane with a parachute on your back
Exactly. I thought they were going to show that lift at Val d’isere. I’ve been on that lift and i shat my pants.
@@pearceclayton8498 I've done that, just make sure you jump just before the summit when still going up, as this will press you into the mountain and makes sure you don't overshoot.
You haven't seen a scary lift until you've been on a miserably slow old two seater with a pole in the middle, an icy seat, no arm rests, and no safety bar during 90mph winds over a 200ft drop.
Childhood memories !! XD
When I was a kid I rode lifts like that many times. Once, my sister messed up and got on my side of the center bar and had to ride all the way up sitting on my lap. It was very foggy so we couldn’t see the ground or how far remained to go, and it was our first time at that ski area. I was trying not to drop her, which was difficult since she was older and bigger than me! Somehow we survived, and she has never heard the end of it.
Word
A few years ago, we had family move out to east-central Arizona. There's a quite good ski area out there run by the Apache, and one of their lifts is a wood-slat two-seater that goes about 200 feet in the air (tribe _really_ dislikes big investments). And, since it's big sky country, the winds get horrible. Haven't experienced the worst of it, but you'd go out there in the morning on a powder day and the ones that were parked at the top would have 3ft long horizontal ice crystals on them from the winds.
Nothing like being suspended over a fatal drop at a 45 degree angle supported by nothing but hardware decades older than yourself
Idk about scary, but I've spent my whole life riding uphill on chairs, and the last few years I've worked maintenance for my local slope and I still can't get over how weird it feels riding downhill on the chair
damn, I would jump off at the top and just enjoy the powder, it's great, not scary ;)
youve got bout half a second window to jump it. did it last season pretty dodgey drop on to it
Yeah but what under the powder are some huge rocks
BGABOVEALLL same idea ahah
Yeah did it about 20 years ago snowboarding with 3 mates, we got chased by the lift operator at the bottom. He didn’t catch us! We did on the last day incase we did get caught and they took our lift pass away ....I still remember it today ....such good untouched powder. warning it’s a longer drop than you think!
BGABOVEALLL most of the time the snow is thin under the chair and the run is short. Not worth it. Plenty of better off piste in Val D than that
Wow, I remember that. My father told me that before that new chairlift there was an old 2 places chairlift even higher and when the wind blew it felt that the wire was going to tear up. I went there 8 years ago and spent of the greatest weeks of my life, that resort is absolutely amazing
GOT DAYUM 9 YEARS AGO
@@trevorwilkerson3508 you weren't even born
@@gl4989 gabriel. first yes i was, second who even are you
@@gl4989 gabriel you joined 2 years ago? based off of that knowledge you very well may be younger than i an
@@trevorwilkerson3508 17 years since he went there lol. And Gabriel, who even are you haha
I was expecting an offload 1 meter long with sheer cliffs on all sides...
Yee
Not scary, just beautiful.
At Alpe d'huez there's one one even more steep downhill, but not as a nice view..
Exactly!
I was on this a few days ago. It's a pretty breathtaking view as you come over the top (I came first from tignes direction) but I didn't find it any more scary than any other lift with a big drop underneath. Awesome powder up there though.
You do get a nice feeling in your stomach when you go over the peak of the mountain for the first time, like you are dropping over the edge. Its not what I would call scary, but is breath taking and makes for an interesting ride!
It’s unusual because it goes down at the end, that’s not scary though, perhaps the sensation in zero visibility could scare some.
Two seater lifts with no bar are much scarier than this. They at least had a bar on this one.
@@ChaseAHansen I have never seen a lift without a bar in my life
@@cannavega9770 dont do much skiing
@@_e5598 I only ski every 1 or 2 years, but I have been in araba and st Christoph and so on, and there were no such lifts
@@cannavega9770 in North America, almost every resort has lifts with no bars, same in Japan. Usually a mixture
I love that hum of the chairlift
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Squaw Creek at Squaw Valley was the scariest lift I've ever been on. Really high up, the support poles were leaning at like 70 degrees, and the tiny safety bar had little reassurance. At least you had a good solid safety bar haha
The old red dog was just as bad, if not worse lol
I think you mean Red Dog because that’s the scariest lift they have.
Silverados is also a scary lift
It’s just a normal chairlift 😑
i agree
I’ve been on it and it is way scarier than you think
@@arch4ngelss619 I have too but not for a couple years
@@oscarmann1751 Nice 👍
I know it well. It is scary but you are right it is not horrful.
The scariest part is this one took 11 years ago and still have chosen by the algorithm
for once i can say... i've been there!! best snowboarding of my life.
There’s a really old one in St Anton that goes over similar rake and terrain, brings a tear to a glass eye!
you mean the old Schindlerkar chair lift :-)..
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The Schindler Lift is was more scary than this.
@@martinbucher5924 My friend nearly punched me on that lift!
John Macfarlane That's the old Schindlergratbahn, unfortunately has been since 2019 replaced by a shitty modern piece of scrap 10-passenger gondola lift.
I am extremely pissed at Doppelmayr and Arlberger Bergbahnen for what they did to it and I hope to bomb the shitty modern gondola along with all Post-2014 10-passenger pieces of crap gondola lifts that have no other place to go but hell since that's where they f*cking belong as they are rammed with tech, they are boring as they have no mechanical differences, they're ugly and too mainstream and city-like, and they raise toxic expectations and give people stupid reasons to complain, as do they encourage the authoritarian c*nts to force modernization on all ski resorts.
10-passenger modern gondola lifts can burn in hell for all I freaking care. Old ropeways are 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 times better than modern piles of scrap.
Before they put the high speed chair in you could get to the top and drop out of the chair. You then on the ridge for skiing or riding down between the crags. Old chair was a lot slower
When I heard scary chairlift I thought the chairlift is going to launch them off they’re seats when they arrive or something
Same lmao
The one in alpe D’Huez into the gorge is a lot worse
yeh been there done that changed my trousers after
@@tomhare5110 i found it sick but a lot of people find it really scary
Now, I have never skied there, but honestly it doesn't look scary at all !!! Scariest chairlift I was ever on had to be the old Olympic chair at Lake Louise in Alberta Canada. It was a double chair, built in 1966, and was fast even by todays standards. But what made it the best (or worst) was the extreme distances between towers, and its height. If you were between towers, and the lift stopped, you were in for one wild ride!!!
The ski lift that malfunctioned and the seats got jammed at the carousel and was throwing people onto the ground was the scariest ski lift I've seen.
A huge pile of people tangled in the detached seats and skis just kept getting bigger and bigger .
The lucky few jumped 6ft to the ground to avoid the pileup.
yeah that was in Georgia, looked a bit worrying
@@theot.e2499 south korea got the same story now. hope nobody got hurt tho.
Did nobody bother to press the safety stop? I mean, there were safety stops on lifts 40 years ago, I can't imagine a ski lift that would not have it
@@mikosoft I've never been on one . Probably is a switch in the control panel or on a post outside, like emergency shut-off switches at gas stations in the U.S.
@@jimwednt1229 I noticed there are usually several safety stop buttons on the pillars (especially on the surface lifts), there's also a bar on the top and bottom station and a couple of safety stop buttons as well, usually pretty well marked in red.
That’s nothing bud, try chair 23 at Mammoth Mountain.
Yup
I rode that a year ago generally shat my pants
The Olympic T-bar at Perisher Valley can beat that. It has a dog-leg and it's best to get on it by yourself. If you get on the right side, with a beginner on the left side, and they push you to the right, you are over the edge whether you like it or not.
Something went wrong if there is a beginner going up Olympic.
I worked a season as a liftie in Perisher and I’ve seen plenty of shit on Olympic 😅
Could have added a mid station
There's not enough space for a detachable midway station without a ton of excavation (detachable midway stations are twice as long as the end stations because you have the decelleration/accereration equipment laid end to end instead of bent in a U shape) and they don't want to patrol the terrain under the lift. This lift is just used to get people between two different areas.
The 9 year old comments are treasures
It’s a chairlift, don’t see anything overly frightening there.
I don't know about scary. I think it's just sad watching people go up and back down a mountain on a chairlift instead of skiing it.
For the real scare, on your 1st usage, you need it to stop just as the descent starts.
Yup, happened to me, and was pretty chilling.
I call it the "ooh" lift. We went over the top and all went "ooooh!" at the beautiful view of the mountains. Then we heard the following chair give a chorus of "oooooh!" too!
Pretty scary. But the Paradise chair at Louise is pretty scary too when you realize how far you are going to go without a tower and how high up you will be on a Yan lift.
I normaly ride with the bar up... This could be an exception
dosent look scary as its more beautiful
I’ve been in this chairlift, it’s not scary… what do you mean?
I tought you were going to jump right on the top !
i would jump off once start going downhill yehaaaaw
What’s scary? It’s a gorgeous view of a gorgeous ski area. I’m jealous.
I dont care about the video but I care about the UA-cam algorithm
And how exactly is this scary?
That’s why there is a bar that stops you from falling down!
Quand on la pris, on s en souvient toute sa vie , aussi impressionnant que la vue est magnifique ☀️
When we go over this lift we always sing frank Sinatra’s “start spreading the news” at the opposing lifts and it’s surprising how many sing the next line back!
As a seasonaire boarder quite a while ago, it was the done thing to lift up the bar and jump off the lift at the peak.
You then had to race down the mountain or the pistairs would take your lift pass off you.
Was pretty exhilarating doing it, surprised i didnt break my ankles... On landing the top was a bit icy... Cheers Phil. Who made me do it, lifetime of memories from that place.
Done that on skis. It is about a 2m drop or less (depending on snow depth). Had a soft landing when I did it. Quite rocky on the Le Fornet side, relatively easy on the Solaise side. Never got chased in those days (1996)
You can lose your pass in europe ski resorts? I thought they didn't do that
What a waste of terrain, should’ve stopped at the top
After watching Frozen, I will never feel the same about ski lifts.
What?
if you lose a ski or glove, theres no hiking that lol
haha omg i can just imagine how you must have felt ^^ scary shit man
Looks pretty crazy. Chair 23 at Mammoth is also a crazy one
Yeah, it has a pretty steep face. Ever been on the old chair 16? It is similar to this one but much higher up as it crested the peak.
I rode that chairlift in the mid-80s when it didn’t even have a safety bar. I was clinging for dear life to the back of the seat as I went over that ridge line
Not scary. If you had to get off at the crest that would be scary
this still has to be one of the best open most beautiful slopes ive ever seen though
We called it the "oh shit" chair! The engineering that goes into chair lifts is amazing.
This place looks amazing.
not scary i went on this when is was 7 and yaa
The video doesn't really transmit the scary feeling. But it really was quite a bit unsettling.
What’s so scary about it?!
The summit Poma at Lake Louise is far scarier. Mostly because you have to ride a surface lift up a slope that's pretty steep. There are places on the lift you don't want to fall off. They actually have ropes on the side because otherwise you probably can't stop yourself from sliding all the way down.
Heigjt never really bothered me. The sketch part is the chair itself. I can remember thia old wooden lift when I was a kid in the 80s. That used to scare me
I feel like the people saying this isn't scary are the really experienced skiers /snowboarders or people who just haven't been on a lift before 😂
I mean... you have to quantify "experienced", cos I don t consider myself experienced at all... I am just a level 4/5 out of 7, but this is just beautiful and not scarier than others 😅
Each time I’ve been on that chair I could hear screams. More scary in real life than on film though.
Why do they have to go over why can’t they just ski down? Didn’t look like too bad of a line.
I was there, it’s Reallohn crazy!
Really crazy!
The scariest thing?? Seriously?)) In Russia, in the Caucasus, ordinary people ride thousands of them every day, I rest in such places every year. and you're making a pathos here... cowards
What's so scary?
for a French soldier this is probably very scary hahahahahahahahahahahahah
Who Ever Came Up With The Title Must Be Doing Some Serious Drugs. Not Scarry One Bit.
@rmizeelectric first of all, if you are going to quote me, do it correctly. secondly, there is no way to even tell if there is a place to get off at the top of the lift because the video doesn't show the top of the lift. It shows the bottom of the lift, or i guess what you believe to be the top of the lift. no shit it is a two way lift... the chairs have to go in a fucking circle so that they can get back to the bottom. you don't have to get off at the top of the lift if you don't want to.
@mrbuckethead18 you should open your eyes while you are skiing!!! especially if you do it every day! or maybe while you are watching YT vids!!! hahaha it is VERY CLEAR that there is nowhere to get off the lift at the top. please watch again... and what is your excuse for all the other people riding up from the other side? IT'S OBVIOUSLY A 2-WAY LIFT!!!!! wow........ "trust me i ski everyday"- hahahahahahahahahaha
I’ve been on lots of ski lifts and I don’t see a thing scary about that one. One thing that I thought to be odd was how many people were riding down 😂
Well it appears to go down towards the station either ways so this chairlift is not used to go up, just to cross from one side of the mountain to the other
That’s Leissierres Express, right? Peak 8 lift in Breckenridge, Colorado is similar to this. Copper Mountain has some terrifying lifts too.
Last week I was skiing from Montgenèvre/Claviere in France back to the Italian side of Via Lattea. Due to lack of snow, we had to detach our skis and sit with them in our lap in the lift going all the way down to the Cesana. That was scary as hell.
Never skiied there. Went to Tignes in 2003 which was incredible. Just came back from a week in Plagne 1800. Would love to do Val-d'Isère one time and Les Arcs too. Both Espace Killy and Paradiski are amazing areas, pretty near to each other. Really snow sure too which matters in these times!
Dude if you're scared on the up & over, as the regulars call it, you are a WIMP...
Try and have fun on it next time, when you've got to the second pylon at the top, start yelling as though it just stopped. It doesn't always work but when the people behind you're get scared and it shows, it's totally worth it. :D
@mrbuckethead18 0:43... watch carefully over the next few seconds. if you look REALLY carefully you can see the top of the lift. you know the part where it stops going up and goes back down? that's the top! sorry about that misquote - "trust me i ski everyday" should have read "trust me i ski NEARLY everyday." sorry about that. you are clueless man. seriously...
@rmizeelectric there was a lot more people riding up the mountain, like you are supposed to do. and the fact that when the person filming is riding down the mountain on the lift it is a much longer stretch than when he is riding up the mountain on the lift. trust me, i ski nearly everyday.
@mrbuckethead18 wrong... so wrong. this lift is definitely meant top be ridden up and over the mountain, and down the other side. You know at the top where no one got off... what was it you saw there that told you it was not supposed to be ridden down the other side of the mountain?
this is the way
There is a chairlift in the Vars/Risoul area where you cross a valley and at its highest point you are probably at least 400 feet above the snow! Fall from there and you aren't pulling yourself out of a snowdrift and walking away!!!
@taylorlutz the lift isn't meant to be ridden down the mountain. the person is just riding back down to the base of the lift. the chairs don't just stay at the top of the mountain... they have to go in a circle and come back down.
Seriously ... I was sitting on worse lifts with NO safety bars when I was 7 (WAY back in the early 70's) all over southern BC (Whistler before Blackcomb ever existed, Manning Park ect ect)
You got me all excited for nothing.
KT22 or Siberia at Squaw Valley.
Especially in the 70s when their maintenance sucked. The Squaw Death Eggs. Locals know what I'm talking about.
All replaced.
Allegedly, so-called,woke. n,n,n,n,n,n,no n,n,n,n,no
That completes the stupidity
Well, in fact there's nothing so scary about this chairlift. Maybe for those British or US tourists who go to ski three times a year, when everything that lifts you above 5 meters is scary...
You have fallen for the American boastfullness trap!
You have all admitted that most US resort have a lift that is scarier becuause it was beyond its safe working life, poorly designedor not properly maintained....etc
I think i will stick with Europe or Canada.....
It has a bar.
Scary why?
Camera doesn't do it justice. I went over it last weekend and the people in front were screaming. I'm not afraid of heights but uneasy doesn't come close to how I felt the first time!
who designed this chair?? chairlifts are supposed to take you up a hill, not up, over, and back down again. i mean wouldn't it make more sense to drop people off at the top of that crest?
@taylorlutz they have built it so that you can get to the other side of the mountain. they surely would have built an top station if the geographic structure would have allowed it.
@darksinthe all you can do is repost my comments then make another minecraft video i dont understand your logic its like you want somone to hit you like man you know once youve commented on my post i was gonna get mad so why do u do it. all im saying is you should watching the way you talk to peolpe cuz one day somone will literally destroy your well being.
Big Red on Red Mountain in Rossland BC. It's probably gone by now but it was an old chair in the he 80's, no safety bars and in spots would be 300 feet off the ground.....or maybe even more!!! I loved it, but not everybody did!! 🤣🤣🤣
Nothing slightly scary about this..... just a regular chairlift... so stupid.
Why? Its obviously an access lift to two areas on the mountain that skiers travel back and forth between. So you could either build two chairlifts on each side of the crest or just have one going the entire length as shown. I would say the one chairlift would be far more economical.
@xXGEN3000KBMXx if he failed hard at spelling it wrong, that would mean he spelled it right. if he failed hard at spelling it right that means he spelled it wrong. so if he spelled it scareeyest, he didnt fail at spelling it wrong, he just failed at spelling it.
12 years after the video has originally been published the youtube algorithm has decided to all bring us together again. Thanks youtube algorithm😂😂
Yall don't even know...I've been on some janky lifts before. That thing is solid. Best view maybe, not scary.