“I screamed in despair”: snowboarder stuck in ski gondola for 15 hours. “The safety and well-being of our guests is our top priority at Heavenly Mountain Resort.
We are investigating this situation with the utmost seriousness,” said the ski area operator. The woman was on a winter vacation with her friends at the Heavenly Mountain resort in the US state of California. The temperatures around the freshwater lake Lake Tahoe are currently falling well below freezing at night.