Reckon You Could ‘Make Like James Bond’ and Escape from a Locked Cable Car? Val Thorens, France Opens World’s Highest Escape Room Being trapped in a cable car cabin suspended high above a mountain in a ski resort with just one hour to get out sounds more like a scene out of James Bond than a lovely day out, reports the Telegraph. But that hasn’t stopped Europe’s highest ski resort, Val Thorens in France, from opening its latest attraction, Escape Game Caron. Inspired by the […] Industry News Steven Agar | April 10, 2018 0 Comments
VIDEO: Record Setting Cable Car On Germany’s Highest Peak Opened On Friday A historical moment The new cable car hovers for the first time on the Zugspitze. Three years of planning and construction will culminate on December 21, 2017 in the maiden voyage of the new Zugspitze cable car. Behind this memorable day is a feat of engineering, before the expectant passengers a panoramic experience in a class of its own. The […] Chris Wallner | December 26, 2017 0 Comments
VIDEO: Speed Flyer Lands Inside Moving Cable Car in Chamonix, France 500′ Off The Ground by Epic TV “This is one of those videos you really have to see to believe. 43-year-old Arnaud Longobardi flies into the open doors of a moving cable car… on purpose. Successfully completing this unthinkable feat required an improbable convergence of a tight-knit team, perfect weather conditions, unimaginable permission from the cable car company, cutting-edge equipment, pinpoint accuracy, a bit […] CragBrains | July 25, 2017 0 Comments
93mph Winds Trap 153 Skiers In Cable Cars In The Italian Alps On Saturday, 153 skiers were trapped in cable cars at the Italian Ski Resort of Cervinia, which is located in the Aosta Valley close to the Swiss Boarder. The cable car failed at an elevation of 8,336 feet. High winds meant that rescue crews couldn’t use helicopters, so they had to resort to ground rescue operations. Wind gusts of up […] Industry News Chris Wallner | December 27, 2016 2 Comments
VIDEO: Life or Death for the La Grave, France Cable Car I have never been to La Grave, France. While watching this video, I felt the emptiness in my skiing soul caused by my lack of visitaion there. It’s high time, and I better hurry – La Grave is in peril… In April 2015, large landslides blocked the road that accesses the village of La Grave from Grenoble. Access in now […] Miles Clark | December 3, 2015 2 Comments
Baby Falls 100-Feet from Cable Car in Switzerland & Survives A 12-month old baby girl survived a 100-foot fall from a cable car at Baerlaui Mountain, Switzerland yesterday. Unfortunately her mother, 31 and father, 38 did not survive in the fall. For reasons still unknown, they were riding on a cargo-only cable car down the mountain after going on a hike. At some point on the decent from 2,700m (8,558 […] SnowBrains | August 6, 2013 3 Comments
251 People Stranded in France’s Legendary Aiguille du Midi Cable Car Yesterday | 45 Round-Trip Heli Extractions Needed… The experience of being trapped, dangling at 7,600 ft in one of the world’s longest tramways would be scary enough. Getting extracted via helicopter from the tram to get back down to safety would probably be terrifying for most people. Yet, there are likely a few people in here who’d have liked it… If you’ve ever been trapped on a […] SnowBrains | May 16, 2013 10 Comments
Man Who Saved Skier’s Life by Traversing Chairlift Cable and Cutting Him Free to be Awarded Carnegie Medal Mickey Wilson, a professional slackliner from Colorado, is set to receive the prestigious Carnegie Medal for his heroic actions in saving a skier’s life in 2017 at Arapahoe Basin’s Lenawee Mountain. While uploading on a lift, the victim’s backpack became caught. He was swept around the bullwheel at the top and headed back down the mountain when the lift operator […] SnowBrains | June 30, 2023 0 Comments