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45 tourists stuck in French Alps cable cars overnight finally rescued
The Panoramic Mont Blanc cable vehicle, the highest cable auto in the world, turned into a hotel last night as dozens of tourists were left stranded in the cars overnight.
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Rescuers were bringing 33 people trapped overnight in cable cars high over the glaciers of Mont Blanc to an altitude station on Friday morning after the tangled cables were repaired, the cable vehicle operator said.
Rescued passengers arrive at a cable vehicle station in Courmayeur, Italy.
At least 50 people are stuck in cable cars above the glaciers in Mont Blanc in the French Alps on Thursday night.
A helicopter rescue operation was suspended as night fell, leaving around 45 people suspended at an altitude of 12,468 feet.
“We were there nearly 10 hours in the cable auto”.
Each cabin carries four passengers, and the 5km ride is normally meant to take 30 to 35 minutes.
Stéphane Bozon, the rescue commander from the Chamonix Gendarmerie, said: “We were in touch with them all night”.
Rescue operations for the remaining 33 people will resume Friday at 6:30 a.m., depending on the weather, Cleaver said.
The sightseers were stranded after high winds caused a mechanical fault on the auto on Mont Blanc, Europe’s highest peak at around 5.30pm local time on Thursday.
“The helicopter rescue failed because the fog moved in, so we had to just wait and then they decided they could bring us safely to the ground, and we walked up the glacier to the hut”, Cook continued.
After a night in the frozen dark, dangling at an altitude of 3 800m, the string of cars lurched into movement at about 8am local time.
Frédéric Maurer, 49, and his daughter were among the first to be rescued.
Cables carrying the cable cars reportedly became tangled at around 4pm local time. Employees of the Mont-Blanc company were unable to fix them, according to its chief executive, Mathieu Dechavanne.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve blamed a “technical incident” but provided no further details.
The boy’s sister, Italian tourist Maria Elena Perrone, 18, was rescued on Thursday, but then had an agonising wait for news of her brother and parents, who were in a different cable auto.
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Early Friday morning, the remaining passengers still suspended high in the air were brought down to safety.