| The Danger Of Wearing Backpacks on Chair Lifts | |
| CBS) A 12-year-old skier had
a chair lift ride he'll never forget on Saturday in Park City,
Utah. Anthony Trabert was about to get off when his backpack straps got caught on the safety bar. The lift kept going, and soon Anthony was dangling almost 30 feet above the ground, outside the lift. "I was going back down the mountain, hanging by my neck," Trabert told The Early Show co-anchor Hannah Storm. He finally wiggled out of the backpack and fell down. The snow and powder on the ground broke his fall. Trabert says, as horrific as the ordeal was, he's getting right back on the skiing horse. "I'm feeling good. I hope to go skiing tomorrow (Saturday)." Making matters worse for Trabert, he says his yelling at the lift operators did no good: "The two people that were in there were listening to music and talking and laughing, until my friends finally went up and started pounding on the door." Trabert says he was dangling for more than three minutes. "I was really scared. I was just thinking... At first, mainly, I was thinking of getting down, and then toward the end, before I fell down, I was thinking that I was going to die." |
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Skier left dangling 30ft above pisteA skier was left hanging 30ft above the slopes when the straps of his backpack got caught on a chair lift in a winter resort in Utah. The hardy skier hung on as long as he could until the straps began to restrict his airways. He managed to wriggle free from his backpack and fell 30ft to the snow below to the shock of fellow skiers. Cushioned by the snow the skier was shaken but not injured and was reportedly back skiing on the mountain a few hours later.
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