of skier left dangling butt-naked on lift

Man left dangling upside down, pantsless after Vail lift mishap: The Smoking Gun (thesmokinggun.com) reported that a skier was left dangling upside down and butt naked from a chairlift at the Colorado's ritzy Vail resort.


Man dangling butt naked on the chair lift [photo via]

In a bizarre incident that will surely lead to litigation (or an out-of-court settlement), a skier at Colorado's ritzy Vail resort was left dangling upside down and pantsless from a chairlift last Thursday morning. The January 1 mishap apparently occurred after the male skier, 48, and a child boarded a high-speed lift in Vail's Blue Sky Basin. It appears that the chairlift's fold-down seat was somehow not in the lowered position, which caused the man to partially fall through the resulting gap. His right ski got jammed in the ascending chairlift, and that kept him upended since his boot never dislodged from its binding.

Other links:
- Skier stripped half naked and shows off bum after mountain lift mishap