Rescue of Boy Hanging from Ski Lift in Utah - Full Video 

Well, this kid was stupid enough not using the safety bar. I hope he learned his lesson.

Karma? Don't be a fool maby

I watched everything everyone did and literally he assessed the scenario and did everything like a one man show. True hero

I was actually 40 feet to the left of camera on this day. I remember hearing the kid screaming and no one know what to do. Then we heard the snowmobile and turned to see him flying up the mountain in just a T-shirt and his hair blowing in the wind, looking like an action hero. Knew straight away this guy would know what to do, he was incredible.

Haha...love the way he flew in, saw what was going on, jumped on his skimobile, flew out, flew back, threw up ladder,, sent the small guy up and then just climbed himself, saved the kid! No coat, no thought of himself, just save the kid!!! Awesome man for sure

“with no”, what about “without”? U must be American. 😂😂😂 Coffee with no milk. Horrendous butchery of the English language.

Me also!!

@Carcar what do you expect? Poor kid said he couldn’t feel his arms. That was a long time for him to be hanging. I think he stayed remarkably calm given the situation. What he can’t yell or let out his frustration?

This boy did not help ........ at all !!! 🙄🙄

Screw you guys who say anything bad about this boy. Seriously, he did amazing. He was probably in so much pain for his little body and was so scared. The kid is like, what 8? This was very real and scary. You’re an asshole with a small peepee.

XDDDD

Kid was hurting.

This was a shit rescue. They should climb up the tower uphill, then move a long the cable to the cart, with safety gear of course.

@@dubious6718 they look like a bunch of stoners.

The "rescue" was bunch of clowns. Good to know where not to go skiing.

@@exTNTcz You can tell this rarely happens by the fact they weren't even prepared to quickly deal with this. People who fall off a lift probably normally fall all the way rather than hanging. They initially came with no ladder, then tried laying matts down, then decided to go for a ladder. Luckily everything worked out OK, which is why the rescuers are being praised.

Actually if anything he really needed someone to sit there and continually pop him questions and just keep talking to him 100% of the time to keep his mind off the pain!! No body kept talking to him and so that's another reason why he'd stream to as the pain just keep increasing as the circulation was cut off... They didnt do a good job in my mind to keep him distracted... That's the best situation for that poor kid was for someone to use distraction techniques to keep his mind off the pain and on other things!! They should have just keep peppering him with questions for him to answer!

Not much I could do. I'm just happy that he wasn't being strangled or had fallen or something.

​@@utahframer Well in that case the best thing would have been using distraction techniques to keep him calm and keep his mind off the pain... You just should have peppered him with questions... Where do you go to school?, How do you like school?, What's your favorite sport? Who your favorite teacher?, What's your favorite class in school? But if you listen close you can hear the ski patrol say he looked awful blue, indicating some strangulation, just after they rescued him... Now if you didn't see it its because when they freed him they just let him sit up there and relax for a bit for him to calm down and for the blue to go outta his skin! But i can believe it if they said his face and hands were blue!! Its a good thing Ski Patrol worked as fast as they could have to free him because seconds sure counted in that situation!! Now yeah I could see you not thinking of using distraction as a method of keeping him calm however because it was a tense situation and no one knew if he was "caught good" or hanging in there by a thread, so yeah that definitely would have been a VERY TENSE situation.

'freezing' ...

I can't believe noone noticed that. A few second after the guy starts to pull on him and lift his arms, he says "I can't breathe." at 5:13 Then he starts to go limp a little bit, kicks around a little bit, then at 5:24 he tries twice to say again "I can't breathe." He then spend the next 50 seconds choking in this position, flailing his legs trying to get momentum upwards for a breathe. Finally they pull him up and at 6:19 you can hear the boy gasping for air at last.

You can still hear him making noises so he's able to move air.

I noticed that! They should’ve moved the chair

@Sussy ass motherfucka he’s literally caught by the back of his jacket, so he can’t move himself.

@@Francis-rs7zu I think a guy named Derek Chauvin tried that logic.

he drives the snow car like a harley xD

Because they’re kids? Must be so hard to be perfect 🙄

Not putting down the bar and moving around carelessly

@Sussy ass motherfucka well seems like yours is a resort of idiots, anyway putting it down is even more comfortable, spending a lot of time with your skies hanging can hurt (tho this lift doesn't have anything to put them on).

@Sussy ass motherfucka There is a reason 95% of these videos where someone falls out of a lift are from the US/Canada. You wont go on a single lift ride in europe where the bar is not lowered. Everyone lowers it, everyone. Sure, nice that people can manage to go up without it but if something unexpected happens it will safe you or others riding with you. And its not even a disadvantage. It is literally more comfortable since you have something for your hands and feet to rest on

@Sussy ass motherfucka yeah i just checked that (probably for profit reasons) ski lifts in the US seem to be mostly outdated, having only 2 to 4 seats, without cushions and they stay on the same cable at the same speed, meaning they dont switch to a separate cable when in the station for you to sit down slowly. Therefore the the overall speed is slower reducing the risk. Does that also hold true for your resort, otherwise i dont really get it since the modern ones are usually very comfortable... some very new ones even automatically lower the bar

🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂

@Stefan Parocki yes

He's hanging by his backpack, which is stuck under the arm of the seat.

aber furchtbar zappeln und strampeln, während ein Retter ihn hochziehen will? Diese Männer waren sehr schnell und haben sich deshalb nicht gesichert. Wäre es dumm gelaufen, hätte er seinen Retter hinunterkatapultiert. Der Junge schreit ja auch erst los, als er die Retter sieht. Ich kenne das aus dem Sportunterricht...

Nah, he screamed like a baby.

@@Venisor21you are the only one who is a baby.

Really? Seemed to me like a bunch of clowns.

@@coleman6131 go touch grass💀

Don’t be an idiot. There’s actually a Rescue 911 story on here out of Odgen Ut, where a girl slipped out because no one attended to her side of ski lift while someone was on her moms side.

@@jennifergray410 Most accidents are caused by. Somebody's negligence ,there are some things that happen where you don't get a second chance to screw up. I'm not the idiot here just stating facts

It's got nothing to do with the parents. Accidents happen and fathers don't coddle thier sons at his age.

Well let me answer ur my parents did when my dad broke his leg so yea

They were on the chair behind him, at least I would think.

He is probably old enough to go by himself when I was like 11 my parents would let me go by myself

@@phoenixdukes513 jesus christ this made me lose braincells.

Yes that 10 foot fall would be terrible 🤦‍♂️

@@martywatts7274 fr i would have rather fell bro

I just turned the volume down.

i think so too

He was going to get off the lift, so of course the safety bar was up... You cannot get off a lift if the safety bar is down lol!! Probably the boy didn't even know he was snagged till it was to late. Which had to have been a incredible surprise to him!!

I’m not saying its right, but a lot of experienced skiers don’t bother with the safety bar. It’s actually pretty hard to fall off a ski lift mid-ride. The vast majority of ski-lift incidents occur during loading/unloading. If its particularly windy, or its a lift that I know serves a lot of beginner runs-which means more less-experienced skiers (who also tend to have issues loading/unloading and leads to more mid-ride halts on the lift), I’ll put the bar down.

@@cmconley33 All good until some skier messes up and the lift jolts to a stop and you take a nice tumble

@@cmconley33 I have been skiing for around 18 years. I have not once in my life been on a lift ride with the bar up. Everyone reaches out to lower it, if you dont do it yourself someone else will. It has nothing to do with "experienced", but everything to do with the country. For some reasons the US decided "FREEDOM we dont lower it". Every video where someone falls out is from the US. I dont get why people dont put it down over there. Its way more safe and way more comfortable

Yes, this is true, but you need to take into consideration the use of the helmet. This brings the chair safety rating up to a acceptable level. And I’ve heard rumor that a lot of USA skiers and boarders are caring airbags in the back packs. With this you are as safe as a Sunday drive on a deserted country road.

@@jameshuntsman6046 , what’s an airbag and why do they use it?

Probably didn’t put the safety bar down.

He'd just passed a midway unloading station and intended to get off the lift there, but his back pack got caught in the chair somehow and he couldn't ski away. Instead the lift pulled him up the slope for about 50 feet with him hanging there until they stopped the lift.

evan rocha so this is at a resort I utah called sundance and they have two stops on the lift, I'm assuming he was getting off on the middle stop and while he was getting off his bag got stuck

He’s a kid

The arm straps of his backpack.

@@cmconley33 made to rest

Many people ski with a backpack. They can use the backpack to carry water, food, hand warmers, cell phones, etc. I'm not sure how it got caught in the chair, but somehow it got stuck in the area where the handle meets the seat. The resort suggests that if you are going to wear a backpack, that you remove it before you enter the lift and hold it on your lap.

I understand wearing a backpack, but a kid his age really shouldn't be wearing one especially on the lift. Thanks for filming this anyways!

Scott M. Probably that he's swinging from a chair 20 ft up and that it's the most terrified he's ever been in his life how about we give the kid a break and be happy he was okay instead of criticizing him on every move

A lot of people ski with a backpack carrying water and other supplies. What exactly are you meant to do with a backpack on a ski lift? You wear the backpack. You just have to watch for loose straps.

@@cmconley33 you're meant to take the arm straps off and carry it on your front. that way if the straps get caught the liift doesnt take you with it

Yeah it’s a chairlift things like this happen

sexist

@@MentalParadox no let’s face it the boys our the ones that are dumb enough to get into the situation anyways I’m even a boy

It seems the backpack saved him from completely falling off the lift

@Stefan Parocki A stupid thing to say? You said a kid choking to death screaming out for help "has issues" you're beyond a moron

How? Those skis are locked on and it takes a lot of force to remove them. Unlikely they could reach the bindings from the ladder anyway.

That might be seen as imposing on peoples' freedom ...

what the fuck is wrong with you like actually

@@c0bweb_m0thz honestly

what the fuck is your problem

He, a small child, was terribly frightened in a horrible situation and in pain. He was not “pitching a fit”. You wouldn’t like it either.

Wow! What a stupid, malicious comment !!!!

Bro at one point he was choking! You try staying calm dangling from a chair lift with nothing you can do. It looks a lot higher from on the lift

you have poles to worry about but the safety bar was up so idk what happened there

He was Probobly unloading and his backpack got stuck.

It's a conspiracy! Maybe the aliens did it?

They did. Several times, in fact...

he was chocking