I want to say this was the plot of an episode of the Twilight Zone that played in the 1980's. The 'button' was offered to an impoverished couple, in which the man wouldn't push the button, and was justifying it by stating the person that might die might be an innocent person. The wife disagreed. She hit the button. The man who offered the button returned to take the device back, in which it was given to another family to make the same decision. The twist is that the people who pushed the button were the people to die, whilst the person who decided not to push the button, got the money, I want to say in the form of an insurance settlement. Kinda like that story about the monkey paw or some other some such.
@@bigt2731you might not expect an answer like mine, but I guess the Americans would be discouraged from helping each other because they'd be scared to death that any of the skiers falling incorrectly could sue the helping person to destroy their life.
@@bigt2731What do you mean everybody I know runs from everything. I don't know what planet you're from but here everybody runs like a bunch of pussies. So yes it was inspiring to actually see a bunch of pussies work together
For anyone wondering what is happening this is a lift rollback meaning the brakes have failed and the lift is spinning freely with gravity pulling the chairs back to the base causing this situation. Like many other comments have said the people involved did a great job managing the situation and preventing a much worse scenario. Also lift rollbacks like this are super unlikely to occur.
If it has its own term to describe it "lift rollback" than it must not be that uncommon. And why no emergency stop mechanism? Like an industrial size clamp that would grab the line. This just feels like a poorly designed lift if something like this is known to happen yet nobody has figured a way to stop it once it starts.
@@2ndTooth I am assuming there must have been some sort of emergency stop mechanism because it did eventually stop when there was still a lot of weight on the downward-heading cable. If there were none it probably wouldn't have stopped until all, or nearly all, the weight was off that side.
@@wavpainter if I survived that I’d meme the absolute hell out of my near death experience. “Me smiling: Finally got GTA 6, Me being yeeted: Your PlayStation 5 does not meet the minimum requirements to play GTA 6”
Impressive how they worked together well to get most skiers to jump off early before crashing into the tower and then helped them to clear the path for the next ones. This mostly worked and prevented many injuries. Amazingly even those that were thrown around the tower did not have serious injuries.
Supposedly a brake failure. The mountain operator is responsible to see that brake failures don't occur. They're preventable, NOT inevitable. Negligence.
How that skier at 1:17 didn't get killed, or even seriously hurt, is absolutely astounding! It looks like he/she gets crushed up in the top of the tower and tangle of chairs. Damn!
It would be impossible to grip the metal bars strongly enough with ski gloves in order to prevent the multiple sideways g-force at the bottom from throwing you off the chair. Still safer to jump under your own control, though.
I saw EXACTLY what you are talking about and wondered that, too!! That part was TRULY horrific and you can hear it in the poor guy's voice when it happens!
@@drinnerd8532 Yeah, you can hear someone let out a cry right when it happens, probably whoever was taking the video. I'm sure the skier was thrown clear since it says nobody was badly injured, but at the moment we can't see him anymore it looks like he would be crushed in all those tangled-up chairs. Hard to watch even though I know he was OK.
You wont believe it but i was there, I refused to go skiing that day and stayed for hot chocolate, I'm from georgia and this was a very traumatic moment, My family is all safe though, what a miracle I was lazy...
The emergency stop de-energizes the lines, but it doesn't force a lock on the cable. There are reasons for that. Compression of the line in any way can compromise the integrity of the cable, creating a larger hazard. Sooo... not much can be done.
@@enigmalfidelity that's why you install multiple stoppers on different parts of the line. I could definitely see one or even 2 clamps grabbing it and the force just tear the line but if you have 5 or 6 that all work in unison to slowly grab it then bring it to a stop eventually I could see it working. I'm no engineer but I'm sure someone in the comments is so they can tell us if it would work or not lol
During my college years, I spent time working as a lift operator. We trained extensively for roll back accidents like this. Every morning we had to manually pull the emergency brake on each lift to make sure it worked. If it didn’t work, the chair was deemed inoperable. We also tested the emergency back up generator on each chair every morning before opening. Because generator and manual brake checking is done every morning on every lift everywhere I have ever heard of, how did this happen? This was awful to watch. May this never happen again!
I’m no engineer but I worked at a ski resort for many years and did all sorts maintenance on these macinces under the supervision of an engineer and his team. Guaranteed there had been no PM or required inspections on this machine. The emergency brake and anti-rollback obviously was nonexistent.. Gravity broought the haul rope ( cable) downward. All simple physics at that point. Totally avoidable. This was a horrific situation..
and then a guy came in with a machine gun and shot up the place, so now I live in a hole--so then there was flooding and an earthquake and volcanic magma; so I just killed myself.
It really is heart warming to see people trying to help others with a sense of urgency. Like at the end with the person hanging. They helped minimise the impact. Well done
I seen the same thing happen at a smaller hill in Alberta. I was in line to load on a T-bar lift when it stopped and started going backwards. I yelled at the lifty to hit the brakes and he yelled back, "I don't know how!" I quickly kicked my skis off and ran over to the lift, pulled open a small door that covered the drive shaft and stood on the brake pad which stopped the shaft from turning. The lift stopped so suddenly, it wiped out absolutely everyone on the lift and broke a whole bunch of T's off of the main cable, but at least it stopped. You couldn't really blame the lifty for that as he hadn't been properly trained to even run the lift.
Oh my wordddd. That was horrifying to watch...I can't imagine seeing this or hearing this in person. I am so happy nobody was critically injured. Beautiful job that everybody did helping others! Blessings from America.
That's a TESLA ski lift prototype. This was the beta test and they found it ran as intended with no bugs. Will be put into production by end of winter.
Seriously. People wonder "why didn't Yulia jump??" - it's cuz dude on the far right pulled the safety bar down while he dropped, which also pulled down the ski rest... So lady next to him got a strap caught on the ski rest, and poor Yulia was trapped
@@aajas Yeah no there was ample of room to get through it. It's a simple bar. It has a lower point + you can clearly see there's ample of room. Either pull your legs up or drop through. So many seconds to react. Nothing.
Safety bars are just there for drunk people or emergency stops or an acceleration jerk or an idiot seat buddy I guess. Extremely unlikely you'll get hurt in any way from dropping into snow, even at 5-6 metres. *VERY* hard to fall out by accident, almost impossible... so I won't say they're particularly "safe" to start with but I digress
@@SebHaarfagre Have you ridden a ski lift before? There was not ample room and she was probably panicking trying to get off however she could in a mere matter of seconds. Obviously if you were initally trying to get off and got stuck seconds before you’re able to get careened into a bunch of metal, you would start struggling in panic. Do you really think they just sat there and did nothing when they clearly knew what was gonna happen? Maybe if you were just wearing normal clothes it would be easy to slip under, but with a helmet? Eh, I doubt it.
@@BLD_LEOG Please use your brain, if people went to help they would’ve been hit by the chairs coming in or possibly skiers jumping off. It is better in this situation to just wait for the situation to become safer rather than endangering yourself and others.
My friend was with her husband and 3 kids on a lift in Colorado. It was summer so only a few people were going up. The operators accidently left them on the lift for 8 hours. When one of the operators was about to fall asleep he couldn’t remember them and went back to check. This was before cell phones.
Lifties are hired at min wage and more often then not live in the worst conditions in the area, they work the longest hours and take the abuse of hundreds of people a day. They are treated like dirt by patrons and bosses and management, no one with any sense or options would take on a job as a liftie.. but those that do, end up drinking and doing anything else to keep what there is of their mind, sane. Also this makes no sense unless it was super early in the morning as Ski patrol do an end of day sweep, this includes prior to night skiing every run and every lift is checked. As well, all lifts are cycled prior to shut down.
@@Novastar.SaberCombat the Irony is that skiing in the 50's was considered a lower class endeavour, the 60's and 70's were hippie's and family , the 90's were the start of the downfall thanks to big Canadians companies like interwest, making cookie cutter ' villages', seriously i lived in whistler , and traveled to copper mtn, CO. , blue mtn, ON and Mt. Tremblant, QC. and they were almost identical. by the end of the 90's Skiing had become the domain of the Spore's, ( City person on rental equipment, but the owned a 1mil ski chalet off the hill side ) Along with that came mandatory helmets.. and black diamond runs that were once considered a solid blue square.. ah, don't get me started.. i went from Olympian and professional Skier, to quitting cold turkey. in the early 90's
@ianskinner1619 I am always nice to the lift operators. A lot of fragile egos with something to prove on the slopes. I hate skiers, but I love to ski. Anyone working for skiers needs to be treated with kindness. Nouveau Riche and Riche are not so classy sometimes or appallingly vulgar. They think that is how one is supposed to act id they have a few dollars in their pockets. Money should have nothing to do with how one treats others! Gross people annoy me.
I was chair lift operator at 18 in Bear Valley, CA. On very windy conditions we would pull the seat cushions so the wind wouldn't fling the chair sideways. Only saw the chair blow out to the side once on the turn at the bottom. That was insane 😳
I didn't think that much about chair lifts as a kid because they were just part of my life. I started riding them at 4 years old. But as an adult, the thought of sending my 4 year old up on a chair lift is terrifying! I am glad to see that there were no truly little children on this section of this chair life. I can't imagine being a parent trying to make the split second decision about when and how to get your preschooler or young elementary kid off that lift before the chair crashed.
@@stroso83This made me think of my teacher lecturing us all in class one day about how when he was young he had to do way more things than we’d ever understand because we were overprotected. It started with a kid saying he didn’t want to go alone to the office because it scared him to go through the dim hallways. My teacher listed a bunch of places he’d had to go to and things he’d had to do by himself as a kid until he got to talking about how he’d been 5 walking to his friends’ houses several blocks away. Suddenly he paused and said, “yikes. My daughter’s that age. I wouldn’t let her.” And one of my classmates just blurted out, “I don’t think your parents loved you.” It was so quiet and awkward after a couple of initial chuckles. He let the kid go to the office with a buddy. I’m not saying your parents didn’t live you btw, this just tugged at that memory. I think parents back then just felt comfortable in trusting their surroundings. They had a sense of safety we will never know. I think the internet makes us so much more aware of the dangers that are lurking out there that people just a couple of decades ago wouldn’t even consider a risk. I really wonder what things that we all consider safe today will be seen as irresponsible or dangerous parenting in the future.
@@shanephillips4011 Well, it is all hypothetical for me since I'm 50 and was never able to have kids, ;). I am very well aware of the car accident stats and I didn't suggest it was logical LOL. There is something about hitting puberty and especially as I got to around 21 or 22 that I started to have really strong reactions to heights, especially in the presence of children, whereas that had never been an issue before. My discussion with a child development expert who studied parental reaction to their children clued me into the biological reasons that they think this happens to women of childbearing ages: Their theory is that we are programmed to experience certain spacial relationships and heights differently than men. Presumably, this would allow us to be more wary around places that pose a danger to small children and to react more quickly (e.g.- think they are closer to the edge of a cliff than they really are) to get to them before they tumble off. The chair lift sparks those same kinds of "over"reactions in my being.
Yes and another person is laying unconscious under all those lift-seats (you can see his red jacket) in the same frame as well. They were the first that got thrown out.. The red jacket person and the other one around 1:16 who got folded in half and then got shoved somewhere into all that junk sent shivers down my spine- I hope they didn’t suffer any lifelong injuries after that
@@ThetreeDraggoncritically hurt just means life threatening injuries. It’s not odd to think these people just got broken bones and/or knocked out/mild concussions etc.
It is so awesome to see people as a group come together in a moment of extreme danger to help others. Too many times do we see people being hurt by others where no one steps up to help them. This is the way everyone should be…
@@КостюмчёрныйНиочень dude i just translated that holy shi, ngl i luaghed okay? dont judge. if anyone doesent want to translate it says (this is Georgia there are a lot of Ukrainians there)
@@maryanne7161 Cable cars in India are known for being the opposite of relaxing. Same goes for their other forms of public transit. A good example would be a train wreck in Japan.
Scary stuff. When I was a kid skiing at Snowbowl in Montana the chairlift stopped and people had to be rescued with a rope to lower then out of the chairs and some spots were very high above the ground. Luckily I was already on the ground watching.
when i was in school in socal during the late 60ties the ski club went to tahoe--the lift broke and messed up a lot of people--one kid was permantely disabled from our school--
It’s a rollback. The brakes failed so it’s just rolling freely and being dragged down by gravity. That’s why the speed is uncontrolled. Kind of like a runaway truck it isn’t as simple as just hit a magic button and it stops. The problem is that the thing that makes it stop specifically has malfunctioned.
@StraightIntoMoney except there werent. Because the news station actually investigated this. How can you just 'tell' if someone's dying based off footage
This same thing happened on "The Hall of Presidents" just a few years ago. It was so out-of-control that Grover Cleveland was re-elected and we were all asked to leave the park.
1:15 omg the way that person was being dragged after being stuck by the collar or neck area of the ski suit and then wildly whipped around and thrown 😮
That's just the lift to the expert trail. Wait until you see the trail. It's just a cliff. This could be a scene in Final Destiny 2024. They survived the plane crash and decided to celebrate by going on a ski trip together. Coming to a theater near you.
I remembered riding ski lifts up a mountain in a ski resort, and when we would stop at times, I would literally panic and cry out of fear. I mean, we are really high up above the steep ground, sitting on a chair with no way down until it moves again, and while having a fear of heights. I was in sixth grade at the time. I stayed the hell away from these things since then, and I’ll make sure to avoid them in the future
My heart was in my throat the whole time watching this. I could only imagine being there and being horrified. But yet I’m reading comments were people were cracking up laughing. I just don’t get it.
i'm a driver instructor. When i show a compilation of car crashes to a new class, you'd think your in a comedy club. I think i can understand why they laugh..but.. a little more maturity and they probably wouldn't.
They're not registering what they're seeing. Like the reply above me thinking people are just being flung off. Jumping or being flung off is the best result. Catching something as you jump is a broken leg. Not getting clear of the next chair or still being on the chair when it gets to the pile of detached ones is a life and death situation.
Gotta bare in mind that these people are confused on whats going on and are racing backwards down a mountain, they don't know what is happening at the bottom on the other side of the station.
Based off my own reaction and other peoples comments, my first reaction was that this looked comical…. But in reality, this is horrific and would have been terrifying to experience. Prayers to everyone involved. I hope everyone is ok
If you watched the video, it said only a few injuries, nothing too bad. Also it's not horrific and terrifying, using those words for a situation like this, makes those words lose their meaning. Falling off a cruise ship, seeing it sailing away from you to never be seen again is horrific and terrifying. Having to jump from a ski lift into snow at medium speed is not.
Sorry, but I know there are people yelling ahead of the turn, to JUMP NOW! anybody who was not paying attention and/or not ready has no business wearing skis on a mountain and deserves to go flying 10 meters. Skiing is dangerous and ALLLL ABOUT paying attention to your surroundings. Pfffff
Not at all. They are still in operation. They just had to fire the operator that made a mistake, and make new safety guidelines for their employees to follow.
@@renaissanceman3903 this was years ago, back in 2018 I believe. This ski hill is still open today, tomorrow and the foreseeable future. The situation wasn't due to a mechanical failure, or horrible maintenance, it was a matter of operator error. That operator got all of the backlash for this. The ski hill, just had to implement better workplace procedures. Mostly around not forgetting to turn on the backup generator, that was already in place so something like this shouldn't happen in the first place. When you can break down a incident like this to human error, there usually isn't much repercussions for the company. After all, shit flows downhill, as the saying goes.
one would assume that you would have a safety switch to turn this off in case of an emergency but I guess they didn't want one out in the public, since people can't be trusted, and you'd have kids trying to push it.
They do, there are giant emergency buttons that attendants can hit to instantly stop the lifts. Perhaps it failed, or this is a really crappy ski lift but its been standard on every lift I've ever ridden in the last 30 years to have a giant emergency stop button at both ends.
The responses had me shocked👀
Could You Press A Button to Make a Million Dollars Knowing Someone Dies?👇🏻
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Depends on 'someone'. Lot's of evil out there...I'd press that button for free.
I want to say this was the plot of an episode of the Twilight Zone that played in the 1980's. The 'button' was offered to an impoverished couple, in which the man wouldn't push the button, and was justifying it by stating the person that might die might be an innocent person. The wife disagreed. She hit the button. The man who offered the button returned to take the device back, in which it was given to another family to make the same decision. The twist is that the people who pushed the button were the people to die, whilst the person who decided not to push the button, got the money, I want to say in the form of an insurance settlement. Kinda like that story about the monkey paw or some other some such.
I’d press it for $10
So... would I kill a person for a million dollars?? Ah... no.
ID SMASH THAT BUTTON
seeing how all those random people working together in the face of a disaster is actually inspiring.
What’d you expect them to do? Just walk away?
@@bigt2731you might not expect an answer like mine, but I guess the Americans would be discouraged from helping each other because they'd be scared to death that any of the skiers falling incorrectly could sue the helping person to destroy their life.
@@Alarix246 Sad, but true!
@@bigt2731What do you mean everybody I know runs from everything. I don't know what planet you're from but here everybody runs like a bunch of pussies. So yes it was inspiring to actually see a bunch of pussies work together
I was a little frightened about ski lifts, and this didn't help at all. So glad everyone was able to get down safely though.
For anyone wondering what is happening this is a lift rollback meaning the brakes have failed and the lift is spinning freely with gravity pulling the chairs back to the base causing this situation. Like many other comments have said the people involved did a great job managing the situation and preventing a much worse scenario. Also lift rollbacks like this are super unlikely to occur.
If it has its own term to describe it "lift rollback" than it must not be that uncommon. And why no emergency stop mechanism? Like an industrial size clamp that would grab the line. This just feels like a poorly designed lift if something like this is known to happen yet nobody has figured a way to stop it once it starts.
ISN'T THERE A SHUT OFF BUTTON? A STOP FAIL SAFE?
@@2ndTooth I am assuming there must have been some sort of emergency stop mechanism because it did eventually stop when there was still a lot of weight on the downward-heading cable. If there were none it probably wouldn't have stopped until all, or nearly all, the weight was off that side.
@@arkwill14 if there was one it sucked cause by the time it stopped nearly everyone was already off lol
@@2ndTooth I agree with that. It certainly should have worked quicker - indeed if they even applied it in a timely manner.
1:15 you’re trying to tell me they didn’t get FUXXED up from that? To say they were YEETED into a pile of broken piles is an understatement.
there was no trace of them after that
They definitely died
@@BirdsfromHuntingdon Teleported into the upper demention
@@wavpainter if I survived that I’d meme the absolute hell out of my near death experience.
“Me smiling: Finally got GTA 6,
Me being yeeted: Your PlayStation 5 does not meet the minimum requirements to play GTA 6”
@@wavpainter no deaths were reported
Impressive how they worked together well to get most skiers to jump off early before crashing into the tower and then helped them to clear the path for the next ones. This mostly worked and prevented many injuries. Amazingly even those that were thrown around the tower did not have serious injuries.
Not impressive, expected.
Impressive? You see this mess in front of you, you jump.
but they didnt so youre a dot ard. look at the lifeless people getting hit over and over while everyone just watches lol
Supposedly a brake failure. The mountain operator is responsible to see that brake failures don't occur. They're preventable, NOT inevitable. Negligence.
Your supposed to ride your skis/board downhill if your smart
How that skier at 1:17 didn't get killed, or even seriously hurt, is absolutely astounding! It looks like he/she gets crushed up in the top of the tower and tangle of chairs. Damn!
It would be impossible to grip the metal bars strongly enough with ski gloves in order to prevent the multiple sideways g-force at the bottom from throwing you off the chair. Still safer to jump under your own control, though.
I saw EXACTLY what you are talking about and wondered that, too!! That part was TRULY horrific and you can hear it in the poor guy's voice when it happens!
@@drinnerd8532 Yeah, you can hear someone let out a cry right when it happens, probably whoever was taking the video. I'm sure the skier was thrown clear since it says nobody was badly injured, but at the moment we can't see him anymore it looks like he would be crushed in all those tangled-up chairs. Hard to watch even though I know he was OK.
They were just sitting there patiently? Like didn't they hear everyone around them screaming???
I know! Like no one ie going to comment on that ? Had to slow mo it and it looked like Yula got crushed, but thankfully she is alright!
You wont believe it but i was there, I refused to go skiing that day and stayed for hot chocolate, I'm from georgia and this was a very traumatic moment, My family is all safe though, what a miracle I was lazy...
Thank goodness you WERE lazy that day......
You're right. I don't believe you.
@@Wayzor_ Fair enough, some people lie so that can happen.
Omg yo-yo so lucky
Me too
How the hell did it take so long to turn it off? Seriously, WTF!!
It was going backwards. Somehow the gears unlocked from the cable that pulls them up to the top.
The emergency stop de-energizes the lines, but it doesn't force a lock on the cable.
There are reasons for that. Compression of the line in any way can compromise the integrity of the cable, creating a larger hazard.
Sooo... not much can be done.
Plus, if the machine wasn’t going, people might’ve been stuck near the top. Then how would they get closer to the ground? 🤔
@@enigmalfidelity that's why you install multiple stoppers on different parts of the line. I could definitely see one or even 2 clamps grabbing it and the force just tear the line but if you have 5 or 6 that all work in unison to slowly grab it then bring it to a stop eventually I could see it working. I'm no engineer but I'm sure someone in the comments is so they can tell us if it would work or not lol
It was turned of. Gravity pulled the side with people (more weight) downward.
During my college years, I spent time working as a lift operator. We trained extensively for roll back accidents like this. Every morning we had to manually pull the emergency brake on each lift to make sure it worked. If it didn’t work, the chair was deemed inoperable. We also tested the emergency back up generator on each chair every morning before opening. Because generator and manual brake checking is done every morning on every lift everywhere I have ever heard of, how did this happen? This was awful to watch. May this never happen again!
It's Georgia, ex Soviet republic. They probably had lax safety standards or corrupt managers cutting corners.
It happened because it was at a ski resort you didn't work at. So, in a way, yes, it was your fault. You should have worked at that ski resort.
It happened because your girlfriend chose me
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Seems like the first Russian lift has some inspections to catch up on. Sounds about right 😬
I’m no engineer but I worked at a ski resort for many years and did all sorts maintenance on these macinces under the supervision of an engineer and his team. Guaranteed there had been no PM or required inspections on this machine. The emergency brake and anti-rollback obviously was nonexistent.. Gravity broought the haul rope ( cable) downward. All simple physics at that point. Totally avoidable. This was a horrific situation..
All brakes worked perfectly on that day. The lifties manually opened them without connecting the emergency engine to the system...
@@next2blow, anything you can manually open you should be able to manually close again...?
And this is why I haven’t been out of my house in 37 years.
😂😂
and then a guy came in with a machine gun and shot up the place, so now I live in a hole--so then there was flooding and an earthquake and volcanic magma; so I just killed myself.
The smell though...
Yep! I'm going on 23 years. So much nicer!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
It really is heart warming to see people trying to help others with a sense of urgency. Like at the end with the person hanging. They helped minimise the impact. Well done
There’s nothing heartwarming here you soft marshmallow.
This is like 10 years old and still makes me laugh. Its very family guyish
That's probably why some people didn't jump off, like cushion the impact for those who come after. Truly inspiring 🙏
I seen the same thing happen at a smaller hill in Alberta. I was in line to load on a T-bar lift when it stopped and started going backwards. I yelled at the lifty to hit the brakes and he yelled back, "I don't know how!" I quickly kicked my skis off and ran over to the lift, pulled open a small door that covered the drive shaft and stood on the brake pad which stopped the shaft from turning. The lift stopped so suddenly, it wiped out absolutely everyone on the lift and broke a whole bunch of T's off of the main cable, but at least it stopped. You couldn't really blame the lifty for that as he hadn't been properly trained to even run the lift.
Nice work bro!
Wow good job!
@@Moonlark-Equestrian Hello fellow equestrian!
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Little guy is holding on like a champ
Yea 1:13 was inspiring.
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I’d get back in line tbh
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You spelled wimp wrong
Oh my wordddd. That was horrifying to watch...I can't imagine seeing this or hearing this in person. I am so happy nobody was critically injured. Beautiful job that everybody did helping others! Blessings from America.
Bro this is comedy 😂 I couldn't stop laughing 🤣 is that bad?
@@MONOblue1999 ehhh...I laugh at terrible shit too sometimes. I get it. LOL.
@@MONOblue1999Yes. That isn't a movie. Real event, real ppl, real danger. You could have witnessed someone die and you think it's comedy.
I enjoyed it.
I’m pretty sure I saw a few bodies laying lifeless in the pile of crushed lift chairs.
Tech: "Now where is that stop button again..?"
Went for the skiing, stayed for the ski lift.
I love ragdoll physics 😂😂😂
"Yay! Big tech!"
I’m sorry I laughed so hard seeing them get yeeted😂
A moment of silence for the employees who had to clean that mess up 😆
Didn't seem like any employees were even there...
no
A moment of silence for the ski operator who had to pay compensation to everybody involved
That's a TESLA ski lift prototype. This was the beta test and they found it ran as intended with no bugs. Will be put into production by end of winter.
A moment of silence for a knucklehead that would post a comment like that.
I am so glad people screamed "jump" so not many other people got hurt!
The ONLY time not having the safety bar down is safer
Seriously. People wonder "why didn't Yulia jump??" - it's cuz dude on the far right pulled the safety bar down while he dropped, which also pulled down the ski rest... So lady next to him got a strap caught on the ski rest, and poor Yulia was trapped
@@aajas Yeah no there was ample of room to get through it. It's a simple bar. It has a lower point + you can clearly see there's ample of room. Either pull your legs up or drop through. So many seconds to react. Nothing.
Safety bars are just there for drunk people or emergency stops or an acceleration jerk or an idiot seat buddy I guess. Extremely unlikely you'll get hurt in any way from dropping into snow, even at 5-6 metres. *VERY* hard to fall out by accident, almost impossible... so I won't say they're particularly "safe" to start with but I digress
@@SebHaarfagre
Have you ridden a ski lift before? There was not ample room and she was probably panicking trying to get off however she could in a mere matter of seconds. Obviously if you were initally trying to get off and got stuck seconds before you’re able to get careened into a bunch of metal, you would start struggling in panic. Do you really think they just sat there and did nothing when they clearly knew what was gonna happen? Maybe if you were just wearing normal clothes it would be easy to slip under, but with a helmet? Eh, I doubt it.
“Let’s go skiing they said. You’ll have fun they said…”
I love a good joke from the '40's !!!
then end the day with a yellow snowball fight they said ❄️
Right?! I mean, why would people strap strips of plastic to their feet and hurl themselves down a snowy mountain?? 😅
1:16 oh my god
🤣 girl got smashed
The fact that I couldn’t see at least a couple people trying to help a little
@@BLD_LEOGthey would get hit by the chair and die!?!?!
@@link.needz.cofffe I don’t know if they died or not
@@BLD_LEOG
Please use your brain, if people went to help they would’ve been hit by the chairs coming in or possibly skiers jumping off. It is better in this situation to just wait for the situation to become safer rather than endangering yourself and others.
So glad everyone is ok!!! God bless everyone who helped!!! Wishing much love and peace!!! Be well and safe out there guys!!!
That kid who held on is really strong. And it took guts to let go and trust people to catch him.
Sometimes, you have to trust strangers, because there's no other alternative.
Personal injury lawyers helicoptered in, darkening the skies..
Lmao! 🤣
I don't think they have those there.
It’s Georgia. You try sue they send Sergei Fedor and Vlad to settle things while you sleep
😮@@trentbateman
My friend was with her husband and 3 kids on a lift in Colorado. It was summer so only a few people were going up. The operators accidently left them on the lift for 8 hours. When one of the operators was about to fall asleep he couldn’t remember them and went back to check. This was before cell phones.
Lifties are hired at min wage and more often then not live in the worst conditions in the area, they work the longest hours and take the abuse of hundreds of people a day. They are treated like dirt by patrons and bosses and management, no one with any sense or options would take on a job as a liftie.. but those that do, end up drinking and doing anything else to keep what there is of their mind, sane. Also this makes no sense unless it was super early in the morning as Ski patrol do an end of day sweep, this includes prior to night skiing every run and every lift is checked. As well, all lifts are cycled prior to shut down.
Humanity sure is classy. But rich people gotta ski.
@@Novastar.SaberCombat the Irony is that skiing in the 50's was considered a lower class endeavour, the 60's and 70's were hippie's and family , the 90's were the start of the downfall thanks to big Canadians companies like interwest, making cookie cutter ' villages', seriously i lived in whistler , and traveled to copper mtn, CO. , blue mtn, ON and Mt. Tremblant, QC. and they were almost identical. by the end of the 90's Skiing had become the domain of the Spore's, ( City person on rental equipment, but the owned a 1mil ski chalet off the hill side ) Along with that came mandatory helmets.. and black diamond runs that were once considered a solid blue square.. ah, don't get me started.. i went from Olympian and professional Skier, to quitting cold turkey. in the early 90's
My goodness there is a horror film about a similar situation. Never thought this could actually happen for real.
@ianskinner1619
I am always nice to the lift operators. A lot of fragile egos with something to prove on the slopes. I hate skiers, but I love to ski. Anyone working for skiers needs to be treated with kindness. Nouveau Riche and Riche are not so classy sometimes or appallingly vulgar. They think that is how one is supposed to act id they have a few dollars in their pockets. Money should have nothing to do with how one treats others! Gross people annoy me.
I'm glad to see people helping one another. I hope everyone is alright.
OHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSH- My commentary for this video 😂😱😱😱 Man, that's freaking terrifying! Glad everyone was ok!!!
I was chair lift operator at 18 in Bear Valley, CA. On very windy conditions we would pull the seat cushions so the wind wouldn't fling the chair sideways. Only saw the chair blow out to the side once on the turn at the bottom. That was insane 😳
Bear Valley in Tehachapi, CA?
@@daretheballoon Alpine County. Hwy 4 central Sierra
Woot woot, Bear Valley! My home mountain!
I know of Bear Mountain in Big Bear
I put a fake poo 💩 log at the unloading zone of the chairlift to see people crash as to not ski over
I didn't think that much about chair lifts as a kid because they were just part of my life. I started riding them at 4 years old. But as an adult, the thought of sending my 4 year old up on a chair lift is terrifying! I am glad to see that there were no truly little children on this section of this chair life. I can't imagine being a parent trying to make the split second decision about when and how to get your preschooler or young elementary kid off that lift before the chair crashed.
The realization of what our parents let us do is kind of head scratching once you have your own kids. Pretty wild.
@@stroso83This made me think of my teacher lecturing us all in class one day about how when he was young he had to do way more things than we’d ever understand because we were overprotected. It started with a kid saying he didn’t want to go alone to the office because it scared him to go through the dim hallways. My teacher listed a bunch of places he’d had to go to and things he’d had to do by himself as a kid until he got to talking about how he’d been 5 walking to his friends’ houses several blocks away. Suddenly he paused and said, “yikes. My daughter’s that age. I wouldn’t let her.” And one of my classmates just blurted out, “I don’t think your parents loved you.” It was so quiet and awkward after a couple of initial chuckles. He let the kid go to the office with a buddy.
I’m not saying your parents didn’t live you btw, this just tugged at that memory. I think parents back then just felt comfortable in trusting their surroundings. They had a sense of safety we will never know.
I think the internet makes us so much more aware of the dangers that are lurking out there that people just a couple of decades ago wouldn’t even consider a risk. I really wonder what things that we all consider safe today will be seen as irresponsible or dangerous parenting in the future.
@@HyperWolf thanks for sharing the story and your thoughts! I think you're on to something, especially with our access to the internet.
Rather nonsensical if you ask me. Do you drive with your children in the vehicle? Look at statistics and reverse engineer my though process here.....
@@shanephillips4011 Well, it is all hypothetical for me since I'm 50 and was never able to have kids, ;). I am very well aware of the car accident stats and I didn't suggest it was logical LOL. There is something about hitting puberty and especially as I got to around 21 or 22 that I started to have really strong reactions to heights, especially in the presence of children, whereas that had never been an issue before. My discussion with a child development expert who studied parental reaction to their children clued me into the biological reasons that they think this happens to women of childbearing ages: Their theory is that we are programmed to experience certain spacial relationships and heights differently than men. Presumably, this would allow us to be more wary around places that pose a danger to small children and to react more quickly (e.g.- think they are closer to the edge of a cliff than they really are) to get to them before they tumble off. The chair lift sparks those same kinds of "over"reactions in my being.
0:51 is that dude knocked out cold??😭 I shouldn’t be laughing I just couldn’t believe that dude was laying there😭😭
Yes and another person is laying unconscious under all those lift-seats (you can see his red jacket) in the same frame as well. They were the first that got thrown out.. The red jacket person and the other one around 1:16 who got folded in half and then got shoved somewhere into all that junk sent shivers down my spine- I hope they didn’t suffer any lifelong injuries after that
No one was critically hurt my Ass, that's all I got to say.
@@ThetreeDraggoncritically hurt just means life threatening injuries. It’s not odd to think these people just got broken bones and/or knocked out/mild concussions etc.
@jaysax7381 i wouldn't think it would be odd if someone was critically hurt either, is what am trying to say.
Why would you laugh at that?
“Okay, it my last day. I’ve always wondered what would happen if I cranked this thing to 11 and just walked away.”
Some people would say time slows down when you think your life is about to end but I think it really flew by.
I’ve unfortunately had that experience. It does both.
They wanted a thrill ride and they got it
@@lewstone5430woosh. Had to.
@@gonelucid oh I get it. Just keeping it real for a second.
God damn
It is so awesome to see people as a group come together in a moment of extreme danger to help others. Too many times do we see people being hurt by others where no one steps up to help them. This is the way everyone should be…
That one Person has some serious strnegth for holding onto the lift for so long at the end.
In Soviet Russia, lift ride you.
i laughed, thanks
Это Грузия, там много украинцев
lovely comment.
@@КостюмчёрныйНиочень dude i just translated that holy shi,
ngl i luaghed okay? dont judge.
if anyone doesent want to translate it says (this is Georgia there are a lot of Ukrainians there)
@@jacobderdall3839 там акцент слышен
Man that looked scary, I hope everyone recovered ok. Terrifying
This is an old video from a couple of years ago. A few broken bones but no deaths as far as I remember.
The video says there were no critical injuries and no deaths, though there were injuries
Hardly 'terrifying' 😂. Get a grip
@@LewisNuke92 there were kids on there.. it could have ended in a bunch of fatalities so yes terrifying
@@BeardedGuy_Tawhid they were about 3ft from the ground 😂
WOW! That was insane! Glad no one got seriously hurt from that ski lift.🙏
This happened several years ago. There was at least one killed, maybe two. Can't remember
What are you talking about "no one got seriously hurt"?????
Probably that person that didn't jump off at 1:15
A few broken bones but no confirmed deaths reported.
@@warriorpoetbear3912 the hell that person just sitting and watching what is going to happen ...
God bless those people at the end. If only we all helped each other like this, my gosh what a different world it would be.
As a kid, i was terrified of any chairlifts i came accross, nowadays, i understand why i was scared of that thing..
props to those people hanging on till the end.
The idiots who didn't let go?
Maybe they didn't understand english.
I thought that was in the beginning when everyone was still trying to put together what was happening?
@@williv and can't turn their heads around to see whats happening
The fear of letting go defeats the reality of crashing horribly.
In Russia , Ski Lift Rides You
Russia?!! Don't offend people!
@@gvertm3158the guy filming was speaking Russian. Although some of the voices were shouting “jump off!” in English, so not certain where this was.
@@phueal Georgia. Soon to be Russia It seems already grabbing a port there
@@phueal
March 16, 2018, Gudauri, Georgia.
Not Russia.
But Georgia was part of the USSR, many people in this country speak russian.
😏
Man, I just wish I would have been on that lift. I would never have to pay to go skiing there ever again.
💀
Really, no E-Stop anywhere.
I'm not gonna lie, some of it had me laughing so hard I fell out of bed in tears. 😮😂
Long as you didn't fall out of a ski lift and end up with leg tear
That was an incredible scene. Makes me feel hope for the future of mankind to watch others helping each other.
Are you serious?
@@AshTownsend in what way?
Great job for everyone working together to save the ones in dire need. God🙏bless you all.
Watching that second group of people go flying was hilarious! Fantastic video. Going straight into the favourites.
This isn't funny....
@@Maddy-is-a-weirdo Thanks for reminding me that this video exists. I'm laughing at it again.
@ lol
laughed til I cried
You won't find a more frightening situation in an environment of relaxation.
Probably a tsunami on a beach
@@gonelucid good call. 5 points.
Um a wolf pack snow storm I could think of many lmao
Google the cable car incident that happened in India
@@maryanne7161 Cable cars in India are known for being the opposite of relaxing. Same goes for their other forms of public transit. A good example would be a train wreck in Japan.
Scary stuff. When I was a kid skiing at Snowbowl in Montana the chairlift stopped and people had to be rescued with a rope to lower then out of the chairs and some spots were very high above the ground. Luckily I was already on the ground watching.
when i was in school in socal during the late 60ties the ski club went to tahoe--the lift broke and messed up a lot of people--one kid was permantely disabled from our school--
@@dethray1000 And one time, at band camp...
imagine not having a emergency stop button
It’s a rollback. The brakes failed so it’s just rolling freely and being dragged down by gravity. That’s why the speed is uncontrolled. Kind of like a runaway truck it isn’t as simple as just hit a magic button and it stops. The problem is that the thing that makes it stop specifically has malfunctioned.
I used to ski for many years and always worried about this happening.
This won't happen to you, it's definitely a freak accident
@@ascherlafayette8572
NOW IM REALLY WORRIED!!😎
Honestly, I am nervous about skiing with these things just due to my own awkwardness, let alone operator error.
That's like saying I never flew in an airplane because I thought this would happen
I only ride uphill lifts and only snowboard downhill
Still far more Safe and Effective and fewer people injured than other things we're told are Safe and Effective.
Good one!
Condoms
Makes me so happy seeing those humans caring for others, especially the little boy! This is humanity
In situations like this, it is preferable to film the carnage, rather than assist the injured
Here you're complaining the guy is filming instead of assisting and yet have you not see there are like 40 people standing around who can assist?
@@hhds113exactly! Only so many people can help, without too many people just getting in the way.
@@hhds113 did you even read the comment? 😂
that people trying to save them is awesome . They were being a team at the time . We still have a hope in this world
The cheers at the end warmed my soul...🙂
1:08 no now was critically injured seconds later a person flys while hanging on and another person gets stuck in the chairlifts (looks like it)
Yeah there is definitely injuries and deaths going on here from the looks of it
@StraightIntoMoney except there werent. Because the news station actually investigated this. How can you just 'tell' if someone's dying based off footage
I know wasn’t nice and I asked for forgiveness. But this had me laughing so hard
Not gonna lie.... I did too at first. Then I started realizing how bad it was really getting.
Yea. Like a guilty pleasure. I do hope everyone is ok though
Dude in the yellow is acting like he's all f'ed up when he's just fine. Bro's looking for a pay day.
ye tru
I’m surprised they’re speaking English in Georgia. Also lovely to see people helping people.
Maybe tourists
This one of the few times I want to thank the cameraman for filming and not helping out.
This MADE my Christmas!!!
ıts funny cos they whıtez
@@jhonfrancıs4 you are sick
This same thing happened on "The Hall of Presidents" just a few years ago.
It was so out-of-control that Grover Cleveland was re-elected and we were all asked to leave the park.
1:15 omg the way that person was being dragged after being stuck by the collar or neck area of the ski suit and then wildly whipped around and thrown 😮
That's just the lift to the expert trail. Wait until you see the trail. It's just a cliff. This could be a scene in Final Destiny 2024. They survived the plane crash and decided to celebrate by going on a ski trip together. Coming to a theater near you.
That wasn't a ski lift. That was a ski dump.
My family has owned 6 ski resorts... 3 of which were built from scratch. I have NEVER seen anything like this in my entire life.
You must be filthy rich
I remembered riding ski lifts up a mountain in a ski resort, and when we would stop at times, I would literally panic and cry out of fear. I mean, we are really high up above the steep ground, sitting on a chair with no way down until it moves again, and while having a fear of heights. I was in sixth grade at the time. I stayed the hell away from these things since then, and I’ll make sure to avoid them in the future
I dont blame you. That was your instincts telling something happened. It's like when your boss picking up your wife for Italian ice on Fridays.
absolutely terrifying. As a skier, I hope and pray this never ever happens to me. I've fallen getting off of the lift, but nothing like that.
They'll be fine...anyone who has skied long enough knows there's a trade off between pain and pleasure. Great story too.
I mean, They wanted an adrenaline rush
Wait are you blaming them for this?
@@MarkIsTiredAlways it is a joke
A quick call from the kiosk at the bottom of the chair lift to the top: “stop the lift mate”. Or maybe they at the bottom stop it themselves.😂😂😂😂
This is not a “ski lift” - It is a
“ski toss”
My heart was in my throat the whole time watching this. I could only imagine being there and being horrified. But yet I’m reading comments were people were cracking up laughing. I just don’t get it.
i'm a driver instructor. When i show a compilation of car crashes to a new class, you'd think your in a comedy club. I think i can understand why they laugh..but.. a little more maturity and they probably wouldn't.
Because it’s hilarious lol
I find it funny because it is so bizarre seeing lift go backwards and fling people off.
They're not registering what they're seeing. Like the reply above me thinking people are just being flung off. Jumping or being flung off is the best result. Catching something as you jump is a broken leg. Not getting clear of the next chair or still being on the chair when it gets to the pile of detached ones is a life and death situation.
5 years old incident in Georgia / Gudauri ski resort, I was there on that day. What sense to repost this video now?
you are so continental!
That is absolutely crazy. Thank God so many of them were able to safely jump out before getting flung
Old video
@@Kawoaa I saw, thank you 😊
I can't believe that several people thought taking their chances riding the wheel of death was preferable to an 8 foot jump into soft, comfy snow.
Gotta bare in mind that these people are confused on whats going on and are racing backwards down a mountain, they don't know what is happening at the bottom on the other side of the station.
@@ryancooper3629 They have only to turn their heads and look behind them. Plus, maybe listen to all the people yelling for them to jump.
@@Cucumberflavoredmustardsome people freeze. They say fight or flight, but the third response is to freeze
No refunds. Thank you for skiing Georgia
Based off my own reaction and other peoples comments, my first reaction was that this looked comical…. But in reality, this is horrific and would have been terrifying to experience. Prayers to everyone involved. I hope everyone is ok
If you watched the video, it said only a few injuries, nothing too bad. Also it's not horrific and terrifying, using those words for a situation like this, makes those words lose their meaning. Falling off a cruise ship, seeing it sailing away from you to never be seen again is horrific and terrifying. Having to jump from a ski lift into snow at medium speed is not.
Was still pretty funny
@@Naatewaardyou realize that those adjectives are subjective… right?
“Horrific and terrifying”
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
woman moment
We use chairlifts for uphill usually here 😂
It’s not that funny but your comment is. I feel bad for the folks who suffered broken bones, broken bones are no joke.
If this is already happening, imaging how worst it'll get with DEI factor thrown into the mix
mostly peacfull ski from hell
No. It happened in Georgia (a country) , several years ago.
i should not have watched this a week before going skiing 😭🙏
00:25
Might be the hardest I've laughed in a looking time
“No one was critically hurt and nobody died” - expect for that one guy that got minced in the chair pile
2:05 yee no one died
When I went to learn to Ski for the first time, this would have just been part of the experience of learning and wouldn't think this is not normal.
Ski park: sorry no refunds
I have never skied, or snow boarded, but even I could tell that the ski lift was malfunctioning, and moving too fast! Jesus help us all!
what about the Jews and the Muslims?
@@o0GrayMatters0othey have yet to find Jesus and accept him as our Lord and saviour. Until then, they'll not be saved
Have you genius also noticed that it is going the wring way?
@@profix25lodefinitely the "wring way", but it's also running backwards. What a perfect storm!
so are you saying that the covenant the LORD made with Israel is invalid@@jrea424
Growing up in the 80s, I never saw a horror movie with a scene quite like this!
Where is the emergency button?!
absolutely hilarious! thanks for posting!!
Bro how is this funny
@@everyrollercoasterrules if i have to explain it, you would not get it ,Bro!
Would it be funny if you were there?
@@MarkIsTiredAlways yes! even more so ,to see it in person would be better than watching a video!!!!!
You need to double check your head for psychopathic diagnosis.
Sorry, but I know there are people yelling ahead of the turn, to JUMP NOW! anybody who was not paying attention and/or not ready has no business wearing skis on a mountain and deserves to go flying 10 meters. Skiing is dangerous and ALLLL ABOUT paying attention to your surroundings. Pfffff
That place went from being open to permanently closed down real quick.
Not at all. They are still in operation. They just had to fire the operator that made a mistake, and make new safety guidelines for their employees to follow.
@@northernsnow6982 all those people are bout to sue the crap out of them.
@@renaissanceman3903 this was years ago, back in 2018 I believe. This ski hill is still open today, tomorrow and the foreseeable future.
The situation wasn't due to a mechanical failure, or horrible maintenance, it was a matter of operator error. That operator got all of the backlash for this.
The ski hill, just had to implement better workplace procedures. Mostly around not forgetting to turn on the backup generator, that was already in place so something like this shouldn't happen in the first place.
When you can break down a incident like this to human error, there usually isn't much repercussions for the company. After all, shit flows downhill, as the saying goes.
@northernsnow6982 oh they make it seem like it was yesterday.
@@renaissanceman3903 yeah that's the internet for ya.
I know this is dangerous, but watching people rag doll fly off, made me laugh pretty hard 😅
😂 i loved it too
I never knew skying could be so much fun. Maybe I try it some day.
You'd think there would be a emergency cutoff button at the end
one would assume that you would have a safety switch to turn this off in case of an emergency but I guess they didn't want one out in the public, since people can't be trusted, and you'd have kids trying to push it.
They do, there are giant emergency buttons that attendants can hit to instantly stop the lifts. Perhaps it failed, or this is a really crappy ski lift but its been standard on every lift I've ever ridden in the last 30 years to have a giant emergency stop button at both ends.
A backup generator wasn't turned on.
The ski lift operator guy used to work the Music Express, he is very sorry for the mix up
my life is probably going the wrong direction because im laughing and the thought of people getting flinged off the ski lift...
You’re not the only one that was laughing 😂
i’m SORRY BUT I JUST CANT THIS IS SO FUNNY BUT NOT FUNNY AT THE SAME TIME 😂😭
I mean I feel bad and hope and pray there ok, but i can't help but to laugh a little at it as well. 🤣
Glad everyone is ok because I laughed so hard at that.