“I didn’t have a phone or a light or anything.
» Several long hours suspended above the slopes, in the dark and the cold.
This is what a snowboarder experienced this week at a ski resort in the Sierra Nevada, California.
After getting into a gondola to go back down the slopes at the end of the day Thursday, Monica Laso stayed there for fifteen hours, without anyone coming to her help, reports CNN.
Thursday, around 5 p.m., Monica Laso, who was spending a few days at Heavenly Mountain, a ski resort in the South Lake Tahoe area, with friends, decided not to go back down the slopes on her snowboard but on foot.
Guided by a station employee, she says, she climbs into a gondola.
But two minutes after leaving, the egg freezes and never starts again.
Monica Laso is forgotten and no one hears her when she cries “desperately until she loses her voice,” she recalls to CNN.
Without a phone, the young woman spends the night in the cabin, rubbing her feet to combat the freezing temperature which reaches -5°C that night.
The slope employees deaf to his cries
The young woman still describes how she “felt frustrated” when she saw station employees passing on the slopes below her who did not hear her.
It was only on Friday morning, around 8:30 a.m., that the ski resort employees noticed the young woman's presence.
While her friends, unable to contact her, had reported her disappearance, the young woman was spotted in the cabin.
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Supported by emergency services, Monica Laso refused to be hospitalized.
According to the ski resort, interviewed by CNN, the young woman should not have been in a cabin at 5 p.m. since the ski lift is only supposed to operate between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.
“We are investigating this situation with the utmost seriousness,” the station further indicates in a press release.