Thirty-eight tourists spent the night in a cabin lift over the French slopes of Mont Blanc. The track was stuck on Thursday afternoon. The rescue workers in safety vest managed to free 77 passengers, but they had to interrupt the rescue operation at night because of impaired visibility. To save the rest of the tourists in the morning joined the technicians, who had to untie the cable crossings of the cable car.
The cause of the accident was apparently a strong wind, due to which the cables of the cable car crossed. In the morning, the technicians managed to unravel individual cabs by releasing the tension in the cables that held them. Tourists, including a ten-year-old child, are back on the ground. Two of them, according to the APA, ended up in the hospital because they suffered a shock.
Tourists spent the night at an altitude of 3,800 meters. They were rescued by French, Italian and Swiss rescuers, who gave those blankets, reflective vests, energy bars and water bottles. Several tourists with the tourists spent the night in the cabins, but one of them, according to The Local, did not succeed.
The chairlift was stuck on Thursday afternoon when there were 110 passengers. 77 of them were evacuated by helicopter, but due to limited visibility, the rescue operation had to be interrupted at night. The original information spoke about 65 saved.
"For security reasons, we were forced to interrupt surgery. We hope to get on Friday morning, "said Georges Francois, head of the department of Upper Savoy, at night. It was a very complicated operation.
Policeman Frederic in safety clothing described the event as an aesthetic surgery. The rescue workers had to run from the helicopters to the small cabins via the ropes of the runway, traveling individually to each other and then safely leaving the cabin with them. "The scope of the operation was simply unbelievable," Labrum said, with people trapped in 36 cabins scattered over a five-kilometer length.
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