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• Source:  1 NEWS Quick-thinking rescuers caught a child who slipped while on a chairlift on Mt Hutt in Canterbury today. Your playlist will load after this ad The child wasn’t injured during the incident at Mt Hutt. Source: 1 NEWS The child was going up on the lift when they slipped between the safety bar and the seat. Ski field staff were quick to manoeuvre a rescue mat underneath the dangling child so they could fall five...

"But at some point there's been a bit of manoeuvring as the safety bars come down and the child has managed to twist his body - the safety bar has come down between their legs as a foot rest - and the child has managed to swivel their legs to the side and, at that point, the child has started to slip." McKenzie said such incidents were rare and the new chairlift was not that different from other older chair lifts. To avoid similar incidents those supervising small children must ensure instructions were followed correctly, he said. The rescue operation took approximately two-and-a-half minutes...

Christchurch woman Jennifer Jones, who recorded the incident, said she was snowboarding when she heard people yelling, “Stop, stop, stop”. She looked around and saw the child dangling from the chairlift, and could only watch as he wriggled and dropped a pole and then a ski. Supplied/Stuff A child dangles from the new chairlift at Mt Hutt Ski Area. “People were calling out to him not to move. I was thinking, ‘Oh my god’,” Jones said. She said staff ran when they saw the child, while other workers got into snowmobiles and grabbed pads wrapped around the tower and placed them un...

Supplied Yorston also drove overnight from Christchurch to be the first on the chairlift when The Remarkables opened for the 2021 season last week. “I’m still recovering from my freezing night,” he said late on Wednesday afternoon. “It’s an excuse to go camping. I wouldn’t hang out in the middle of a field if there was nothing to do. “Some people spend $300 to go to Rarotonga. I spend $300 on petrol to sleep on a chairlift.” Supplied Yorston has been among those on the first chairlift of the season at Mt Hutt skifield for nine years in a row.

And finished with a ski on Taranaki Maunga. “I’ve had a wicked day. Doing things like this is good for the soul,” he said from the slopes. “It’s not a bad outcome to finally get there at 51.” Edward Guy/Supplied Former Taranaki man Edward Guy, who now lives on Arrowtown, managed to complete the surf ‘n’ snow double while on sabbatical in his home region. Guy, who is the managing director of Rationale Ltd, an infrastructure investment consultancy, said there was a frost on the sand when he took to the waves at Ahu Ahu Rd. Edward Guy/Supplied