“Were ripped from our seats”: Woman reports chairlift nightmare in Italy. “We clung to our lives for 40 minutes.
We were in shock,” she continued. The location of the incident was the popular holiday resort of Cervinia in Italy's Aosta Valley, which recently changed its name twice. The very next day, lifts in some Swiss ski areas had to be temporarily switched off - and winter sports enthusiasts had to queue up because of the “Föhn of the decade”