Poster: A snowHead
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Ninety people were trapped for up to 12 hours in gondolas, when a ski lift broke down at the Japanese ski resort of Otaki. In freezing temperatures, rescuers had to climb the ski lift, force open the door on each of the 44 gondolas and winch the passengers one by one to the ground about 20m below....The ski lift broke down at about 10:30am, but with the gondolas strung out along a 2.4Km cable, it was apparently nearly 10pm before the last passengers were lowered to safety. Luckily, no one was hurt.
It appears that the breakdown was caused by a cable coming loose from a pulley.
From: http://news.theage.com.au/skiers-stranded-on-ski-lift-for-12-hours/20071216-1hbq.html
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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12 hours!
That seems an awful long time, but maybe the consequence of being 2.4Km long.
I can't recall a gondola that long in Europe
Anyone know the longest European gondola?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I'll bet they were glad it was not a chairlift!
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Jonpim, 2.4km doesn't strike me as that long. A bit of googling suggests that Silver Mountain, Idaho (admittedly, not in Europe) has the longest gondola in the world at 3.1 miles (5.0 km) and 3,400 vertical feet.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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According to Jonpim's favourite reference site, the Grund-Mannlichen gondola is the longest in the world. I'm not 100% sure that this is the case, but I know when it was built that it was the longest then.
I think it may still be the longest in Europe.
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The GGM is split in 2 segments though, both around 3km in length. The one at Silver mountain is 1 segment.
This makes the GGM the longest, and the one at Idaho the longest single-segment.
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Ronald, I guess either way, the one in Japan at 2.4 Km isn't that long in comparison. Although I presume that if there was a problem on the GGM it wouls only affect one of the sections?
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12 hours sounds like British levels of inefficiency.
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Jonpim, my god that is a scarey video, you have to wonder why they allowed the gondala to keep running. I thought they had Anemometers to detect wind speed and velocity
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Jonpim, the gondola at Orelle is 4,942m long in one segment and was the longest in the world when it was built in 1995. I don't know if there are any longer single segment ones in Europe.
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