Shock in the Glungezer ski area: Winters rope tears and meets winter athletes!

Shock in the Glungezer ski area: Winters rope tears and meets winter athletes!

Glungezer, Innsbruck, Österreich - A dramatic incident shook the Glungezer Ski area near Innsbruck last Saturday when the carrying cable of a towing lift tore and fell to the ground in the middle of skiers. The incident occurred at the towlift "Kärmarter" at around 1 p.m., while about 40 people were on it. Fortunately, only a winter athlete, a 64-year-old Tyrolean, was hit by the falling rope, but remained unharmed and only showed a damaged helmet. Immediately the ski vacationers were brought to the middle station by the lift personnel with snowmobile, as krone.at reported.

how could the misfortune happen?

The police determined that a lift hanger may be thrown up shortly before the first support and wrapped itself over the carrying rope. As a result, the "roll battery" was torn out at the support 1, which finally fell to the ground. The exact circumstances will continue to be examined in order to determine the exact cause of the dangerous incident, according to the authorities. According to the initial investigations, the security mechanism was no longer active, which increased the severity of the incident, tirol.orf.at .