A horrific occurrence was captured on film at the General’s Mountain ski resort in China’s Xinjiang Province northwest. Riders were tossed around in their chairs when their lifts swung wildly, over 40 feet in the air. Something went wrong when a lift cable unexpectedly stopped working.
A recently posted film by The South China Morning Post shows the trapped skiers anxiously clutching onto the chairs. They also had to brave the tough weather conditions.
One skier said that they were almost thrown from the chair because it was swaying in every direction. A torrent of feelings swept over him, he said.
Everyone on the ski lift got off safely before it was halted. It was decommissioned for two days for repairs. The problem was attributed to the chilly temperature, according to reports.
A severe deep freeze hit the northern region of the nation as temperatures plummeted to record lows. Unexpectedly, snow fell even in southern China. Temperatures in certain parts of Northern China dropped dangerously in the last few weeks, marking an extremely frigid period. An accident between two metro carriages after heavy snowfall demonstrates how this harsh weather significantly affected transit.
Tragically, more than 500 commuters sustained injuries during that calamity.
A Beijing weather observatory has recorded more than 300 hours of below-freezing temperatures in less than two weeks, generating problems for the nation, according to a local daily. There hasn’t been a colder December in the nation since 1951.
At the same time, warmer weather has reduced snowfall, delaying the opening of ski resorts in Europe.
According to The Guardian, the French Alps slopes remained unopened until two days before Christmas due to excessive rains.
A crisis developed when 500 winter athletes voiced their worries about the continued danger of climate change to their sport and demanded that the International Ski Federation do something about it by cutting emissions.
Did they produce emissions when traveling to the French Alps?
Maybe that is why China was blanketed with record snowfall.
