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Sixty skiers safely rescued from Verbier chairlift

60 people rescued in a 2.5 hour mission involving a helicopter

featured in News & reviews Author Ellie Mahoney, Verbier Editor Updated

A video published by Le News this morning shows the dramatic rescue of around 60 people from a chair lift in Verbier.

According to their report a helicopter had to be brought in to take people off the chair lift from above, in an operation that took over two and a half hours. 

Everyone was brought back to safety, although with the temperature yesterday sitting at around -8 degrees Celcius, there must have been a fair bit of warming up to be done by the skiers afterwards. 

Full details from Le News