Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games

It is really very dangerous, so I think something must be done with it.

WOW… that is scary… I have skiied my whole life and its amazing to me that something like that could happen at a world renown resort on such a new lift… there should be tighter regualtions…

Um……that’s kind of scary. How often do these things even get checked? It seems like the kind of thing that’s not very regulated or controlled and is a disaster waiting to happen. Hopefully someone doesn’t have to die before tighter safety regulations are adapted.

Accidents happens – as long as they don’t in the Olympics weeks

i must be getting old. stories like this never fazed me in my youth, but now that i am a parent i look sideways at any contraption that might send me or my kid launching through the air. i was on a roller coaster the other month and i cannot for the life of me figure out why we get on those things.

I remember seeing this on the news. Scary to think what goes through a persons mind if you were the one falling as the tower collapsed

It’s amazing how life can throw curve balls at you. One minute you’re having the time of your life and the next you’re falling 35 feet to your death. Kinda makes you think, don’t it.

Ouch…sitting in an unheated gondola on a lift that only 3 years old…just went through inspection couple months previous…that had to be terrifying. Especially after you get off and find out what was going on…

I remember when this happened, I was in Calgary getting ready to go to Whistler Resort that weekend. 2010 is so important for us Canadians we need to not let anything spoil it for us.

Forming ice on any structure is extremely heavy. I’ve lived up NE for most my life and when ice forms on tree branches..many can’t bear the weight and collapse. Its common sense maintenance.

Who’s the engineer that designed this 3 years ago? I think he should check the towers load bearing capacity figures again. Good thing is that no one was killed.

Amazing that nobody died. That’s not the type of olympic memory we want to create here. What a PR nightmare that would be for the entire country.

How much fun do you think it will be when they have to evacuate the Peak to Peak gondola at 1400 feet above the ground? I bet that will be scary.

Man that had to be scary. It’s something you take for granted and really don’t expect to happen. I hope there have been tighter regulations since this happened.

I’m sure glad I wasn’t on that lift when it fell. I can’t imagine what would be going through a persons mind on the way down, or if you were standing below when it collapsed.

Hey this just happened earlier this year in Sweden. Can you imagine being on the lift and that happens, how helpless can you feel?

Skiing has always been a risky sport and pastime, but in my case, most of my injuries were self inflicted doing stupid stunts on the snow during my youth! But the fact that the very towers that carry gondolas up the mountain are vulnerable to ice is pretty scary.

What a sorrowful tragedy, I am afraid to try that vessel, I am afraid of intense height.

I have been on some of these chair lifts…it is hard to look down, I am amazed it doesn’t happen more often.. terrible thing

The winter game’s have been magnificent thus far and are making me want to take a ski trip up to Vancouver!

I remember seeing this on the news. Scary to think what goes through a persons mind if you were the one falling as the tower collapsed

I too saw this on news. Well as scary as it sounds I think these things need to be checked on before especially before such a huge sporting event.