The ski lift, an ancient T-bar surface tow, hadn't turned in 30 years.
In 1998, 19 people were killed when a low-flying US warplane cut the cable of a ski lift on the mountain.
Thinking of checking the trail map while waiting on the ski lift?
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Organizer Pascale Dedonker, who is country manager for Switzerland Cheese Marketing, says the promotional event was actually no more disconcerting than a ski lift.
In 1998, an American fighter jet clipped a ski lift cable sending a gondola of 20 passengers to their death in the Italian Dolomite mountain range.
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The Brian Head Resort in Utah is opening its ski lift so people can watch the eclipse from atop a mountain peak of more than 11, 000 feet.
Now even snowboarders are experimenting with the contraptions, using kites to shoot up the mountain without benefit of a ski lift and then packing them in their knapsacks for the ride back down.
Here and there, amid mountains dubbed by National Geographic The Lost Sierra, you still can find old cables that hauled mining buckets up the mountain and that today's longboarders believe doubled as the world's first ski lift.
In towns across the Alps you can rent a sled, take a train or ski lift a mile or two up the hill, and launch yourself on a terrifying run that puts the rides at Disney World to shame.
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An investigation has been launched into the safety of a ski-lift after a teenage girl died when she fell during a school trip to Italy.
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He worked odd jobs, as a cart boy at a golf course, a ski-lift operator and a janitor (he uses his janitor ID as his Twitter avatar).
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The chambermaids and ski-lift attendants are being priced out.
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Even at the height of ski season, lift lines are practically unknown.
The quadrennial TV spectacle boosts awareness of the sport, which eventually translates into dollars for the firms that sell ski equipment and lift tickets and slope-side condominiums.
As Vail ski resort celebrates its 50th anniversary, lift One (it debuted on Nov. 16) provides the most comfortable, high-tech ascent to Mid-Vail yet, and in a record-breaking seven and a half minutes.
In Ecosign's early days, ski-resort design was fragmented lift architects handled lifts, parking engineers handled parking lots and so on.
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The hotel sits right off the bunny slopes 200 yards from the main lift, and has a relaxed and friendly ski valet service.
Historically, ski companies have been content to be little more than lift operators (as they still are in Europe), allowing local businesses to cream off most of their potential income.
For example, at Sun Valley ski area in Idaho, there's an official lift ticket exchange program that lets you trade in a "downhill" day for a long list of options including a massage, ice skating and lunch or a shopping credit.
The director of the ski school at the resort has said the safety bar on the lift was down when the girl fell.
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But at the heart of this unpicturesque village 200 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, with its trailer parks and mining-town architecture, burns the pioneering spirit of mountain adventure that far predates the cookie-cutter chalets and sophisticated lift systems that have come to define the modern mainstream ski holiday.
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Plus there is a ski run that runs right down to Main Street, serviced by the Town Lift, which carries you back up to the slopes of Park City Mountain Resort.
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Three minutes is considered a long lift line, Big Sky and Moonlight Basin fans say, and the kids' ski schools guarantee small classes.
These are the worst times for ski travel, with inflated airfares, jacked-up rates for accommodations, overcrowded slopes and lift lines, and shortages of everything from rental gear to top flight instructors.
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