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More than 170 snowboarders and skiers rescued after Colorado ski lift cracks

landscape view of snowy mountain terrain
The sun shines onto Vasquez Cirque, new terrain for Winter Park Resort in Winter Park, Colorado, in 1997. Photograph: Byron Hetzler/AP

A crack in a Colorado ski lift forced the evacuation of more than 170 stranded skiers and snowboarders on Saturday, with people riding the gondolas lowered down by ropes over the course of hours.

Officials are still investigating what cause the gondola lift at Winter Park Resort, about 70 miles (113km) west of Denver, to crack. The lift automatically stopped when it detected the crack in a structural piece of the lift just after noon on Saturday, the resort spokesperson Jen Miller said.

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