By Jim Stanford on January 6, 2009
Good thing he is wearing his helmet. Photo by Marty Odom. Click to enlarge.
Cheer up, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.
At least you don’t have this image circulating on the Internets.
From The Smoking Gun, in a story titled “Skier Suffers Exposure:”
“JANUARY 6 — In a bizarre incident that will surely lead to litigation (or an out-of-court settlement), a skier at Colorado’s ritzy Vail resort was left dangling upside down and pantsless from a chairlift last Friday morning.
“The January 2 mishap apparently occurred after the male skier and a child boarded a high-speed lift in Vail’s Blue Sky Basin. It appears that the chairlift’s fold-down seat was somehow not in the lowered position, which caused the man to partially fall through the resulting gap. His right ski got jammed in the ascending chairlift, and that kept him upended since his boot never dislodged from its binding.”
TSG has more photos and details of the rescue here.
Thanks to reader Gaper Gangsta for the tip.
Posted under Humor, Ski Resorts, Sports
good thing he’s run’n a helmet…may be a purple helmet at this point
some amusing commentary here:
http://deadspin.com/5124895/what-the-mind-can-conceive-and-believe-it-can-achieve#viewcomments
and here:
http://www.tetonat.com/2009/01/caption-this-photo/#comments