An 8-year-old boy plummeted 30 feet from a chairlift at a California ski resort on Sunday, local authorities say.
The youngster fell from the Grandview chairlift at the Sierra-at-Tahoe Resort, a ski destination just 12 miles from South Lake Tahoe.
The Lake Valley Fire Protection District said in a press release that the fall occurred at 1.20 pm with ski patrols responding immediately. Upon reaching the boy, medics provided first aid.
Air transport units were called in to assist the operation, due to the patient’s age and the sheer distance of the fall, according to the press statement.
Eventually, the boy was rushed to the hospital by medics. At the time of writing, his condition is unknown.
Details from the incident at the Sierra-at-Tahoe Resort are still emerging, although a spokesperson for the ski destination told South Tahoe Now that the boy had fallen near the top terminal of the lift.
On March 8, the date of the fall, the Sierra-at-Tahoe Resort wrote on X that the Grandview chairlift had been placed on “temporary hold.”
The resort shared another post on X to confirm that the chairlift had reopened that day.
The fall is the latest in a series of tragedies to befall the Lake Tahoe region.
On February 17, 2026, a 100-yard-wide avalanche left nine skiers dead in the Castle Peak area in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
The avalanche, which was the state’s deadliest since 1981, hit a group of 15 experienced backcountry skiers and guides.
Six of the victims were a tight-knit group of moms. Two of those who died, Liz Clabaugh and Caroline Sekar, were also sisters.
“They were incredible sisters, mothers, wives and friends,” their brother, McAlister Clabaugh, told The New York Times. “And the idea that they are both gone is, I don’t even know how to put it into words.”
In a press statement, Sugar Bowl Academy, an elite skiing school, confirmed that some of the victims had “strong connections” to the school.
That same month, a 53-year-old skier named Stuart McLaughlin was killed at the Northstar California Resort in North Lake Tahoe.
McLaughlin died on the Polaris trail after colliding with a fellow skier at around 11.30 am.
He was the second person to die at the Northstar California Resort in just a month, with 26-year-old Nicholas Kenworthy being killed at the ski destination on February 6.
Kenworthy died on the ski destination’s Martis trail, which, like the Polaris trail, is a Black Diamond slope. That means it is the most challenging terrain type at a North American ski resort.
Northstar California Resort is located in Truckee, just northeast of Lake Tahoe.
The Independent has contacted the Sierra-at-Tahoe Resort and the Lake Valley Fire Protection District for comment.
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