Justin Knight talks quickly Friday morning as he pounds together spliced strands of lift cable underneath the towers of Aspen Highlands’ new Deep Temerity chairlift.The splicing process of the ...

JACKSON — Replacing a cable on a ski lift doesn't require a mechanic -- it requires an artist. Fortunately for Jackson Hole's ski epicenters, a world-class cable splicer lives in Wilson. The splicer's ...

CARRABASSETT VALLEY, MaineCARRABASSETT VALLEY, Maine — A Maine ski area says workers who were trying to realign a ski lift cable had stopped to get riders off the lift when the cable jumped its track, ...

CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Maine — A Maine ski area says workers who were trying to realign a ski-lift cable had stopped to get riders off the lift when the cable jumped its track, sending skiers plummeting ...

There’s a metallic clang, and the door slams shut. Seconds later, the crammed cable car whisks upward, heading for La Flegere, a mountain just outside Chamonix in the French Alps. A pit forms in my ...

THE HOSPITAL, BUT IS EXPECTED TO BE OKAY. WE’RE COMMUNICATING DOWN. ARE YOU OKAY? YEAH. A FRIGHTENING SITUATION FOR PEOPLE HITTING THE SLOPES AT ATTITASH MOUNTAIN RESORT ON SUNDAY, JUST AFTER NOON.

A terrifying ski lift malfunction in China made a black diamond run seem like the bunny slope in comparison. After a lift cable stopped suddenly due to malfunction, riders were bounced up and down as ...

Ski area employees working in blustery conditions were unable to realign a lift cable that was out of place and had restarted the lift at a slower speed to off-load riders when the cable derailed, ...

CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Maine - Ski area maintenance workers dispatched to realign a lift cable were unable to fix the problem and had restarted the lift in an attempt to off-load riders when the cable ...