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A 16-year-old girl was hospitalized after falling from a ski lift in the Mammoth Mountain area of California, when bystanders were unable to catch the helpless girl.
The girl, whose name has not been released, boarded the Stump Alley Express lift with three other skiers on Saturday, with the terrifying fall captured on video.
In the video, the snowboarder is seen hanging on the ski lift that has stopped moving, with ten members of the resort's ski patrol (security personnel on site) standing below her, and are seen holding a net to catch her, while she is ready to release her grip from the chair of the lift.
Shockingly, the girl let go and then plummeted to the ground, completely missing the net.
Suddenly there was a chilling crashing noise, as the girl hit the ground below while those around her sighed in sadness.
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The condition of the surfer is unknown
A spokesperson for the ski resort told KTLA 5 News that the girl was "not fully seated" and began to slide out of her chair as the lift went up the mountain.
"The other people on the lift chair grabbed the surfer and held her down so she wouldn't fall while the lift operators stopped her," the spokesman said.
The girl was rushed to Mammoth Hospital "for evaluation", and her condition is unknown.
"Our thoughts are with the skier and her family," they said on the ski website.
The height of Mammoth Mountain, the highest ski resort in California, is almost 2,440 meters and it receives about ten meters of snow per season.
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Only 4% of falls are due to surfers' medical problems
The lift, built in 1997, is one of 25 serving the 3,500-acre ski resort at the edge of the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
The National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) found that 86% of ski lift falls can be attributed to passenger behavior and error - while only 4% of falls are due to lift skiers' medical problems.
From 1973 to 2020, there were only 30 deaths related to ski lift incidents, eight of which were deaths due to a medical problem, according to a 2021 NSAA study. The remaining 22 deaths were due to mechanical failure, human error or an unknown cause.
Between 1973 and 2020, the entire ski industry provided guests with more than 18.3 billion ski trips, and a total of 14.8 billion kilometers traveled by skiers on lifts - which means that one fatality occurs only after a distance of 160 million kilometers traveled by skiers on lifts along the way to the mountain
The girl's injury comes just days after a snowboarder spent 15 hours trapped in a gondola at a Lake Tahoe ski resort.
Two minutes before the descent, the gondola suddenly stopped and left the surfer stuck in the air, into the night.
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