A New Zealand family are heaving sighs of relief this afternoon, after their 11-year-old son had a close shave on a chairlift at a ski resort.
Footage captured by a visitor to the Mount Hutt ski resort showed young Jack Clulee dangling dangerously from the chairlift, which was metres off the snow-covered ground.
The New Zealand Herald reports that the Clulee family didn’t get the chance to pull the safety bar down as their chairlift took off, and poor Jack was left hanging on to his uncle and father after he slipped.
Jack was reportedly hanging there for about a minute before emergency responders arrived below, with a safety pad. Bystanders also came over to lend assistance.
Thankfully, when Jack decided to drop, he was safely caught by trained experts below. He was uninjured in the ordeal.
Afterwards, Jack told local media that he held his breath and willed himself not to fall during the traumatic incident.
“It was pretty scary. I was just thinking to myself I didn’t want to fall, because it was quite high up,” he said, adding that the ordeal had not put him off skiing.
Thank heavens he was unharmed.
