Blackcomb Gondola Tower Topples
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- December 16 2008
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According to ctv.ca at least six people are trapped in a Blackcomb gondola as a gondola tower tipped over:
escue workers are beginning to free skiers and snowboarders stuck inside gondolas on B.C.’s Blackcomb Mountain.
Around 2:30 p.m. the Blackcomb Excalibur gondola tower came off its moorings, stranding at least a dozen passengers inside several cars hovering over the mountain. The tower is now leaning quite heavily to one side.
Sgt. Steve Wright of Whistler RCMP says the gondolas didn’t fall — they remain on the wire cable with passengers inside. But the cable is sagging down quite far from its regular track.
At least six people are trapped inside the cabin closest to the base of the mountain. That car was hovering a few feet above the ground, and has now crashed down on top of a bus shelter in the resort town’s village.
A second gondola, about 40 metres further up the mountain, also has people trapped inside. That car is sitting five metres above Fitzsimmons Creek, between Whistler and Blackcomb Mountains.
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December 16th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Holy shit. I remember Whistler had another lift incident about 10 years ago where a detachable quad fell onto a groomer and either killed or severely injured the people on it.
December 16th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
and the quicksilver chair in creekside back in the day started going backwards and killed a bunch of people..
December 16th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
i like how the whistler site says nothing about this. pr is probably freaking out right now.
December 16th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
at first i thought they meant the peak 2 peak gondola… thankfully it was not
December 16th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
i was just thinking about that, weak
December 16th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
ohh shit that would be soo scary and i was gonna take a weeklong trip there over brake
December 16th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
hey does anyone find it ironic and somewhat weird that this gondola replaced the quicksliver lift which also failed???
December 16th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
bad juju…
December 16th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
how did the blackcomb gondola, that goes up blackcomb, replace the old quiksilver chair that was at creekside on whistler??
sooo really no irony what so ever…
December 17th, 2008 at 1:19 am
still a bunch of shitty lifts
December 17th, 2008 at 10:06 am
ohhh, i read somewhere that a gondola replaced the quicksilver lift so i assumed that this was it
December 17th, 2008 at 11:54 am
theyre haveing major problems with alot of the lifts. the whistler gondola was supposed to b brand new but as time went they slowly cut buget to the bare minumum. major staff houseing problems. and the telus festival gets better every year?
December 17th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
I’m just glad it’s not the peak to peak. I wouldn’t want to fall hundreds of feet to my death.
December 17th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Thats good ol’ canadian quality of work there. Thank god the mountees were there to save the trapped people.
December 17th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Your statement is wrong the BLACKCOMB GONDOLA IS ON BLACKCOMB…. The quiksilver chair which is on WHISTLER was replaced by the CREEKSIDE GONDOLA!…… But it was still a crazy accident
December 17th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Canadian work ethic has nothing to do with it considering the lift was built by dopplymyer. As far as I know that isnt a canadian name Right???? Some euro’s built that gonolda.
December 17th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
ha the resort is gunna make a killing now…cause now theres only one chairlift that will get u on blackcomb and the other way is to take the gondola up to whistler mountain then take the peak to peak gondola over to blackcomb…but to take the peak to peak you have to pay an extra $11 when u buy your lift ticket…
December 17th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
I took this picture with my cell phone. fo real. damn
December 17th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
fuck americans
December 18th, 2008 at 3:04 am
thats what i was going to say. thank you
December 18th, 2008 at 3:23 am
Wow, this looks great with the Olympics right around the corner..
December 21st, 2008 at 6:02 pm
I think you all need to just chill. it could have happened anywhere, thats what you guys dont realize. god. honestly. ill still be going there all the time. it was something not in there control. stop beaking and thinking it was all their fault.