A total of 110 people had become trapped as they rode the Vallee Blanche Cable Car in the Alps at about 4pm on Thursday afternoon.
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The rescued tourists were taken to the French resort of Chamonix at the base of the mountain and to the Italian town of Courmayeur.
On Friday morning, 33 people were rescued after being trapped overnight in cable cars 3,800 meters above the Mont Blanc glaciers in the French Alps.
But as darkness fell and the weather deteriorated, the operation was suspended, leaving the remaining tourists, one of them a 12-year-old boy, to spend the night suspended in mid-air.
Rescuers provided provided blankets, food and water were in constant touch with those trapped and had to spend the night in the cable auto, media reported.
An operation to rescue people trapped overnight in a series of cable cars in the French Alps is due to resume.
He said only two cars did not have rescue workers overnight.
Helicopter crews were forced to hover over the cable cars and lower rescuers onto the gondolas, who then strapped themselves to the people trapped onboard and brought them to safety one-by-one. About 60 were rescued through the evening, thanks to emergency helicopters who lowered crew members to extract passengers one by one from the cable cars, but once night fell it became too unsafe to continue the airborne mission.
“The extent of this rescue operation is simply unbelievable”, Colonel Frederic Labrunye, commander of the provincial gendarmerie group of Haute-Savoie, told Associated Press. He said, “We were in contact with them throughout the night, the people were cold”. They included a 7-year-old and 9-year-old from Korea and a 10-year-old Italian child.
“We were there nearly 10 hours in the cable auto”.
Late on Thursday, four helicopters rescued 78 people – 48 who were airlifted out and around 30 who were able to climb down with the help of rescuers.
Three cable cars in Mont Blanc dangling after getting stuck on Thursday.
The cable cars join the Aiguille de Midi summit in France, at 3,842m (12,605feet), to Pointe Helbronner in Italy, at 3,462m (11,358feet) and offer a panoramic view of Mont Blanc.
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The cable vehicle journey normally takes 30-35 minutes.
