This clip from July 12, 2014 shows a chairlift being blown off its cable at the Argentinian ski resort of Cerro Catedral | Catedral Alta Patagonia.  

I’m sure you have gotten the nervous chuckles when the winds pick up, and the chairs get rocking. You think to yourself, “If it were too windy to run the chairs, they would have put them in a windhold.” Well, if you have skied in South America, those chuckles take on a whole different meaning.

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