Posted on 01/27/2024 10:35:25 AM PST by thecodont
This article originally appeared on KCRA.com.
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — When Monica Laso planned a skiing trip with her friends to Heavenly Ski Resort, she never imagined she would spend 15 hours overnight hanging in the sky on a gondola.
The hours felt long as Laso said she was fighting the cold by rubbing her hands and feet.
Thursday was her first time at the Lake Tahoe area resort. She spent most of the day snowboarding. Towards the end of the day, she fell behind her friends since they are more experienced than her.
Laso said since it was getting late, she approached a worker who guided her to the gondola after she expressed that she was too tired to continue down the hill. She got into the gondola at around 4:58 p.m., and then two minutes later, it stopped, leaving her alone and stranded.
KCRA 3 interviewed Laso in Spanish. The following quotes were translated.
"I didn't have a phone, a light or anything," said Laso.
Without a phone to call for help, Laso said she screamed every time she saw a worker down below, but they couldn’t hear her.
"I screamed desperately until I lost my voice," Laso said.
Laso's friends said they reported her missing to the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office when they could not get ahold of her.
It wasn’t until the gondola started working again Friday and went back down the mountain that crews realized she had been there overnight.
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Workers wearing ear buds will have that effect. She should have thrown a ski pole at them.
There’s a horror movie out there with this exact plot. It didn’t end well. The wolves ate them. It’s a long story.
(at Heavenly Ski Resort)
Where they leave you, abandoned, closer to Heaven
and try to ignore you so that you can reach Heaven.
I think I saw this movie.
And actually, I'd bet there are procedures in place that just weren't followed by the wagies working at the resort.
Saw that. Not a bad movie.
No motor car, too?
My goodness. The workers should have a strict policy of running the lift a complete loop before shutting it off at the end of the day.
she expressed that she was too tired to continue down the hill... really? WTH???
Not a single luxury!
Though, no one knows what you’re talking about…
Major lawsuit coming.
😃👍
I thought that was standard safety procedure at the resorts. No?
Doesn’t speak engrish? Why?
I was thinking similar but a person can get on at points along the way, I would guess. maybe they need to watch a video or ?
It’s odd the worker pointed her to the lift and didn’t tell her it wouldn’t be operational for long (few minutes)
Thankfully it was not an open air chair lift.
😂
Not a single luxury.
No motor car, too?
Not a single luxury!
Though, no one knows what you’re talking about…
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Like Robinson Ca-ru-so, as primitive as can be.
Honestly, girl should have packed chemical hand warmers and a candy bar perhaps.
Thank God she got out in reasonably good shape.
That does sound like Cali, yup.
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