Poster: A snowHead
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This maybe old news for many of you, but I couldn't see any reports about this already on snowheads.
Maybe I've overlooked it on here... or maybe it's been kept very quiet...
I heard about this whilst in Zermatt last week from our chalet host...
From Yahoo news:
Saturday February 26 04:13 PM
A four-person chair from a ski lift lies in the snow on Axamer Lizum mountain near Innsbruck, Austria, on Saturday, Feb. 26, 2005, after it crashed to the snowy slope. Four people were injured in the accident and 120 had to be rescued from the lift. (AP Photo/Georg Koechler)
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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OUCH! I have been on that lift
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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me too
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let's hope my g/f doesn't hear about this - i always have to tell her to stop worrying every time we go on a chairlift...
(I adopt the "it'll never happen to me" approach, my g/f adopts the "1 in a million chance is no good if you are that 1" approach)
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Crikey,
I keep telling my g/f that this sort of thing just doesn't happen..............
Now I've got to tell a lie or she won't get on one again
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I heard about this while in Austria last week. The local concensus in the resort I was in said it was very, very rare and that the mechanism failed on one chair. I think its amazing that no-one was killed, they fell 10 metres I think. It did cross my mind whilst dangling several hundred feet up in the Penken cable car in Mayrhofen once or twice though.
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I do wish that people wouldn't put these stories on the site, it took me weeks to get back to being calm in cable cars after hearing about the Grande Motte in Tignes, now I'm going to have to pluck up my courage for chairlifts again.
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I bet every snowhead has at some stage has gazed wonderingly at the thin metal arm that connects the chair to the wire and considered what would happen if the metal were to g.......aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Kramer, agreed! I haven't been anywhere near my GP since the Shipman case.
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hayley t, they would say that, wouldn't they? I think it's all down to fat b@astards on lifts. Ban 'em!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Damn - I wish I hadn't looked at this thread! Since missing the Grand Motte incident by a couple of minutes I've been much more nervous of uphill transport than I ever used to be (I'm really not very good with heights). Errant chairlifts feature in too many of my nightmares, but up until now I thought this was impossible...
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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It certainly wasn't the uplifting experience imagined! I do hope those involved were not badly injured. It seems fortunate that the car appears to have fallen at the pylon, which is more often than not, the shortest distance to fall. Have there been any further reports on cause? It seems unclear from the photograph, if the car, including the arm was dismounted from the cable. The car appears to have landed on it's back, so the arm may be covered in snow. It would be interesting to know if it was a mechanical failure, or 'Occupant Error', i.e. swinging the car.Tim Brown, That's drastic!! But I imagine GP withdrawal symptoms are easing waiting times!
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Some bloke got knocked over crossing a road I once crossed, I'm a bit nervous crossing roads now.
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You know it makes sense.
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Bernard Condon, I don't think it's a coincidence that it fell off at the pylon. I'd guess it didn't reattach to the cable properly and fell off as it bounced over the pullies.
Note To Self: don't swing the chairs
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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skanky, 150 people died getting out of bed in the UK last year, too. Why take the risk I say!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Tim Brown, GP's are best avoided at all times.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Kramer, I sleep with mine (not that she's my registered GP, you understand).
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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laundryman, Where do you get these prescriptions???
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Bernard Condon, in the reversal of the usual practice, I was referred to said GP by a consultant
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Well, I know tat fear is irrational, but just try to think about how much more dangerous the drive to the hill was than actually getting on the lift. Infact, I'll bet the fried lodge food for lunch is more likely to kill you than the lift
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laundryman, that's high quality care.
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hayley t wrote: |
I heard about this while in Austria last week. The local concensus in the resort I was in said it was very, very rare and that the mechanism failed on one chair. I think its amazing that no-one was killed, they fell 10 metres I think. It did cross my mind whilst dangling several hundred feet up in the Penken cable car in Mayrhofen once or twice though. |
It's really fun to do that one when the wind suddenly picks up! One poor lad (early twenties) sat down on the floor and started to cry for his mum - we/I was too scared to say anything, but I nearly broke my husbands hand I was holding it so tightly!'
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Lorraine Agass, fortunately we didn't have too much wind. My friend (although he wouldn't admit it) buried his head in his hands and wept the whole way up the first time! But it was a different story on the Hintertux glacier - that was very windy and it stopped very suddenly twice on the second leg so we had a few bouncy moments. That was my one and only trip on that gondola!
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