LAKE LOUISE, Alberta, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- A breakdown of a gondola system at a ski resort in Lake Louise, Alberta, stranded 75 people for as long as five hours in frigid temperatures.
Rick Werner, operations manager at the resort in Banff National Park, said a safety switch on the Grizzly Express gondola tripped at about 3 p.m. Sunday.
It took eight rescue teams until nearly 9 p.m. to get everyone down and take them off the mountain by snowmobile or snow cat, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., reported. Crews used a pulley device to reach the cable cars and then lowered people in harnesses to the ground.
It stranded about 75 children and adults along the resort's longest lift, which stretches 9,500 feet from the resort's base to a mountaintop.
Temperatures had dipped to 21 degrees by early evening.
The resort promised a full investigation into the shutdown.
