About 100 skiers were stranded and many injured after strong winds derailed a chairlift at a ski resort on Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine on Tuesday, CNN reported. Several people were injured when wind gusts caused one of the ski lifts to derail and sent skiers tumbling off the chairs, which were suspended 9-12 metres off the ground. A spokesman for the ski resort said the lift cable derailed Tuesday morning, but they managed to evacuate five stranded skiers and the rest would be rescued within two hours, dpa cited the report as saying. The skiers would have to climb down one at a time using harnesses and ropes. The resort received about half a metre of fresh snow because of a blizzard over the weekend. The temperature was about -13 degrees Celsius on Tuesday, with winds of about 50 km/hr.
