Just an hour from Montreal, Mont-Tremblant was the country's first resort to install a chairlift.
We can send work e-mails from a chairlift above the ski slopes of Vermont.
Vigilius Mountain, located at 6, 235 feet, but you can also take the chairlift.
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The first chairlift was installed in Sun Valley in 1936 after its invention by Union Pacific Railway engineer James Curran.
"There's a constant feeling of heritage swirling around the mountain, " Edmonton native Conor McKeown told me as we rode up the chairlift.
The best spots on the mountain are those accessed by Jupiter chairlift.
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Above the village of Stoos, a chairlift climbs up to the Fronalpstock, where a viewing platform looks over Lake Lucerne, nearly a mile below.
Les Vieilles Luges in Chamonix can only be reached on skis, or by taking a scenic 20 minute hike from the Maison Neuve chairlift.
Skibound, which organised the trip, said she was involved in an incident on a chairlift during her morning ski school lesson in the resort Claviere.
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That same year, writes John Fry in his book The Story of Modern Skiing, the chairlift was invented in the US, revolutionizing skiing as a recreational activity.
Media outlets in Italy have reported that Poonam died falling from the chairlift but this has not been confirmed by the school, which said it was not at liberty or prepared to discuss the details.
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The main lodge manager at Heavenly Ski Resort, Stan Miller, told The Associated Press that Bono was skiing alone at the top of the Orion slope when he crossed beneath a chairlift and hit a tree.
But the advent of the chairlift puts an end to a valuable process of natural selection, by which those who reach the hut are sure to find, in its pure state, a small sample of a little-known human subspecies.
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