A snow surfer Spent 15 hours trapped overnight in a cable car cabin in sub-zero temperatures at Lake Tahoe Ski ResortAccording to authorities and the media.
Monica Lasso climbed into a cabin at Heavenly Ski Resort on Thursday after 5:00 p.m., because she was too tired to ride her board. however, The cable car stopped a few minutes later while she was still in the skyAs told to KCRA, which was the first to report the news.
Lasso screamed for help, but no one on the ground heard him, the television station reported. He didn’t have his cell phone with him, so he couldn’t even call for help.
“I screamed so hard until I lost my voice.”Lasso told KCRA in an interview in Spanish.
He spent the night rubbing his hands and feet against the cold. The overnight low was 23 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.
Lasso’s friends reported her missing to the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday, but she was not found until Friday morning, when the cable car restarted, and staff realized she had spent the night there, the television station reported.
The ski resort, located on the southeast side of the lake near the California-Nevada border, is investigating “extremely seriously” how the lasso became entangled.
“The safety and well-being of our guests at Heavenly Mountain Resort is our highest priority,” Tom Fortune, the resort’s vice president and chief operating officer, said in a statement.
The sheriff’s office did not respond Saturday to a request for comment.
Kim George, battalion chief and spokeswoman for South Lake Tahoe firefighters, told The Associated Press that sheriff’s deputies requested their paramedics around 8:30 a.m. Friday after Lasso was discovered.
She was conscious and alert and refused to be taken to a hospital, George said.
In his 23 years on the fire department, “we’ve never responded to anything like this,” George said. “I am very curious to know the history.”
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