Tristan Stead was riding the Peak Express in Whistler, British Columbia, on Monday when he was dragged up into the air.
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In the video, the other skiers on the chairlift can be seen holding onto the boy by his arms.
Witnesses say ski patrollers were quick to act.
Stead was about to board the lift when he dropped one of his poles, as he bent down to retrieve it, the chair “hit me in the butt”, and his uncle grabbed him by the jacket, and “I just went up”, according to KOMO News.
A group of half a dozen skiers emerge juggled themselves across the snow with a stretched-out tarp to save the boy in a circus-style catch.
A member of the ski patrol then counts down from three, and the child is safely dropped into the net, followed by applause from onlookers.
‘The chairlift was pretty far away. And then my uncle Rufus grabbed me, and then it just went up, ‘ he told the station.
“It was scary because he was slipping through his clothes”, said Christopher Sakai, who filmed the tense rescue and uploaded it to YouTube.
Mr Sakai also reported that the boy seemed fine after the fall.
A boy who was dangling from a chairlift in Whistler, Canda, landed safely thanks to staff and bystanders who broke his fall with a tarp on February 15, 2016.
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Sakai, who was visiting Whistler with family from California, said the boy was back on his feet moments later.
