Park's gondola reopened after breaking over the weekend. The popular Colorado ski resort had to shut down the gondola on Saturday after a malfunction and the approximately 175 passengers on it had to evacuate the lifts by climbing down ropes.

After ensuring that no one was in distress, a rescue operation was initiated about an hour later during which ski patrollers climbed up the lift towers, shimmied to each of the gondola's cabins and removed the occupants' equipment before using ropes to ...

Ski patrollers climbed up the lift towers, shimmied to each of the gondola's cabins and lowered the occupants' equipment before helping people down one at a time.