The responses had me shocked👀

How the hell did it take so long to turn it off? Seriously, WTF!!

You wont believe it but i was there, I refused to go skiing that day and stayed for hot chocolate, I'm from georgia and this was a very traumatic moment, My family is all safe though, what a miracle I was lazy...

For anyone wondering what is happening this is a lift rollback meaning the brakes have failed and the lift is spinning freely with gravity pulling the chairs back to the base causing this situation. Like many other comments have said the people involved did a great job managing the situation and preventing a much worse scenario. Also lift rollbacks like this are super unlikely to occur.

seeing how all those random people working together in the face of a disaster is actually inspiring.

And this is why I haven’t been out of my house in 37 years.

During my college years, I spent time working as a lift operator. We trained extensively for roll back accidents like this. Every morning we had to manually pull the emergency brake on each lift to make sure it worked. If it didn’t work, the chair was deemed inoperable. We also tested the emergency back up generator on each chair every morning before opening. Because generator and manual brake checking is done every morning on every lift everywhere I have ever heard of, how did this happen? This was awful to watch. May this never happen again!

Little guy is holding on like a champ

In Soviet Russia, lift ride you.

The ONLY time not having the safety bar down is safer

Alfred Hitchcock: The Lift

Impressive how they worked together well to get most skiers to jump off early before crashing into the tower and then helped them to clear the path for the next ones. This mostly worked and prevented many injuries. Amazingly even those that were thrown around the tower did not have serious injuries.

How that skier at

That kid who held on is really strong. And it took guts to let go and trust people to catch him.

Oh my wordddd. That was horrifying to watch...I can't imagine seeing this or hearing this in person. I am so happy nobody was critically injured. Beautiful job that everybody did helping others! Blessings from America.

“Let’s go skiing they said. You’ll have fun they said…”

Went for the skiing, stayed for the ski lift.

I'm glad to see people helping one another. I hope everyone is alright.

It really is heart warming to see people trying to help others with a sense of urgency. Like at the end with the person hanging. They helped minimise the impact. Well done

A moment of silence for the employees who had to clean that mess up 😆