Kid Falls From Ski Chair Lift at Keystone

We were standing in the lift line for Montezuma Express at Keystone Colorado when this kid falls off his seat and is just hanging there. Holding onto the arm and ski of the adult to the left, apparently unable to pull him up. Ski patrol checked the area, had him take off both his ski's, then told him to drop. The little boy walked away from the whole thing! The fall looked to be 10-20 feet but I'm just guessing.
January 16, 2010 at 11:40am.
Shot with a Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS point-and-shoot still camera.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Ski
• chair
• lift
• fall
• keystone
• Colorado

[ripstickolli]

why didnt the other pple on the same lift help him?

[technicaliTaze]

@ripstickolli well i wasn't able to start recording until a few minutes into the ordeal. the other people on his chair (i assume his parents) did try to pull him up at first but it looked like they just didn't have the upper-body strength. this clip is not trimmed, i hit record just before he dropped.

[paintballez]

if i where to fall from a lift i would at least have to do it in style like put a 360 in there and try to land on my board haha

[b0b0themonkey]

i just pooped a little watching that

[MUSICDARREN2000]

@ukehero21 who cares bro

[mrmalcmac]

Hahahahahaha loser

[ukehero21]

THAT'S MY BEST FRIEND!!!!!!!!!

[wonckey]

the guy with the matt at the bottom left is like o fuck almost made it too lol

[loolsos]

people freaking out like its a hundred foot drop or something...

fuck tards....

[crv26]

at least there was some pow

[littlehawk12]

If they go backwards the sudden jerk of it starting could cause a loss of grip and then splat

[boardsnmotion]

It seems like every ski lift I've been on says that it's capable of operating backwards. I wonder why they didn't try spinning it backwards.

[prosnowboarder19]

at least he landed in powder, here in se wisconsin all we have is ice :\ hope hes ok tho

[MrKyvegas00]

press one for sex